2. (modifier) lonely, solitary.
Kāti, e Mate, haere rā i tō tira mokemoke ki tō tāua tini, ki tō tāua mano e kāpunipuni mai rā i te haumūmūtanga o te tangata, haere atu rā (HM 4/2009:4). / Well, Mate, go with your lonely travelling party to our many ancestors gathered in silence, farewell.
3. (noun) loneliness, solitude, isolation.
E kore e taea e au te noho i reira, i te nui o taku mokemoke (RK 1994:34). / I would never be able to live there because I would be so lonely.
ongeonge
1. (verb) to be scarce.
E muia ana ngā awa o Ōngarue me Whanganui e te tuna me ētehi atu tū ika; pū ana te ngahere pōkai nei i te kīnaki, i nāianei kua ongeonge kē, kua rāhuitia kētia rānei (TTR 2000:206). / The Ōngarue and Whanganui rivers teemed with eels and other types of fish; the bush provided delicacies now rare and protected.
Synonyms: mōmōhanga, nihoroa, mokomokorea, whakaonge, mōtī, mokorea, pūhore
2. (verb) to be lonely.
Ka pāngia hoki au nāianei i te ongeonge, kāore au i rongo ki te tino reka o taua tuna rā, he paku hononga whakamuri ki te wā i noho ai ōku tūpuna i raro i ngā āhuatanga Māori, ā, kei te mamae tonu, kei te ongeonge tonu mai (TWK 37:15). / Now I am overcome by loneliness and I have not tasted eel and that's a link back to the time when I lived a Māori lifestyle with my grandparents, and I am still grieving and still lonely.
3. (noun) loneliness.
Ka pāngia hoki au nāianei i te ongeonge (TWK 37:15). / Now I am overcome by loneliness.
mehameha
1. (verb) to be weak, limp, lacklustre, boring, uninspiring.
Ko ngā whare hoko kua whakakapia, ā, mehameha ana ngā tāone, kāhore he tāngata e kitea ana ki ngā haurahi (MM.TKM 1/1/1855:16). / The houses of business have closed, and the towns are desolate, for there is nobody to be seen in the streets.
Synonyms: wana-kore, memeha, haumate, waitau, parure, pīngohengohe, pingohe, tāngange, tākohekohe, tīmohea, toti, totitoti, momohe, ngongohe
2. (verb) to be lonely, solitary, lonesome, isolated, forlorn.
Kātahi anō tērā ka haramai tonu, Waikanae, ka kānaenae ngā kanohi o Hau; ko Waimeha, ka mehameha a Hau (JPS 1927:281). / Finally he came on to Waikanae, so named from the glancing of Hau's eyes; then Waimeha, where Hau was lonesome.
3. (verb) to be ashamed, embarrassed.
Kāore e mehameha te tangata ki tana kōrero (W 1971:200). / The man isn't embarrassed by what he said.
4. (noun) loneliness, isolation, lonesomeness, solitude.
Ko te wikitoria kei a koe, ko te mehameha ko te pōuri kei a mātou (TP 3/1907:2). / Yours is the victory, while we are left with loneliness and despondency.
mōrearea
1. (verb) to be apprehensive, alarmed, in a crisis, exposed to danger.
Ko tō Hepi Te Heuheu momo whakahaere i te mahi, he whakahauhau, he whakamana i a wai noa hei whakatau whakaaro, ā, noho ake ana ia hei haumi kē me ka mōrearea, kua kore rānei e haere te mahi (TTR 2000:217). / Te Heuheu’s style of operating was to encourage and empower others to make decisions, while keeping his own position in reserve if a crisis occurred, or the task was not progressing.
Synonyms: whakawhara
3. (modifier) exposed to great danger, dangerous, hazardous.
He mea mōrearea ki te hauora o te iwi kāinga ngā mate mauhoro e whakataumaha ana i aua tūroro (TTR 1996:223). / Those patients suffering from contagious diseases were a health risk to the local people.
4. (noun) crisis, dilemma, danger, emergency, predicament, trouble, alarm.
Nā ngā mahi ātete ā-tinana i ngā kairūri i roto i Te Urewera, i tau ai te mōrearea ki runga i ngā take whenua (TTR 1994:11). / In the Urewera physical resistance to the surveyors engendered a sense of alarm over the land issues.
Synonyms: pōraruraru, matawaenga, harapuka
2. (noun) loneliness, longing (for absent friends).
Tēnei mātou te noho aroaroā nei i te mea kua wehe atu ō mātou hoa i a mātou (TP 11/1904:1). / Here we are left with this loneliness because our friends have departed from us.
