rere
1. (verb) (-a) to fly, flow, flee, leap, escape, go into action (any gliding movement), rush, run, race, descend.
I te mea ka tae mai te ahi ki reira, kātahi te tangata nei ka rere ki roto i te taika wai rāua ko tētahi atu tangata, ka whakamākūtia hoki he paraikete mō rāua (TPH 10/1/1906). / When the fire reached that place then this man and another one fled into the tank of water and they doused blankets with water.
Synonyms: teretere, horo, takanga, oma, omaoma, takaniti, whakatūkawikawi, hīrere, patiko, oioi, rere tārewa, wakewake, takawhiti, tūpou, rērehi, iwi, whakaoma, tauomaoma, reihi, tauwhawhai, mātāwaka, momo, tuoma, rēhi, peo, karapetapeta, whakataetae, matawaka, tarapeke, tūpeke, rēinga, peke, mahiti, mokowhiti, mawhiti, mokopeke, mokohiti, rei, tiapu
2. (verb) (-a) to sail.
Kātahi ka haere ngā tāngata ki te moe, ka ora hoki te ngākau i te kohu kua mahea, e mahara ana ka rere pai tēnā tō rātou kaipuke ki te kāinga (TWMNT 10/3/1874:63). / Then the people went to sleep relieved that the fog had cleared and knowing that their ship could sail home.
3. (verb) (-a) to descend, get down, slide into.
Nā, ka tae ia ki te wai, ka marere ōna kākahu, ka rere ki te wai (TP 1/1913:7). / Now, when she reached the water she took off her clothes and got into the water.
4. (verb) (-a) to fly about.
Kaua e tahitahi maroketia te rūma o te tūroro, engari me tīehuehu ki te wai kia kore ai e rere te puehu (TTT 1/7/1922:11). / Do not sweep the invalid's room when it's dry, but you should splash it with water so that the dust will not fly about.
5. (verb) to run out, let down (of a line).
Ka mounu anō ngā tāngata o runga i ngā waka rā i ā rātau matau; ka rere anō ngā aho ki te wai (JPS 1913:107). / The men on those canoes baited their fish hooks again and ran out the lines into the water again.
6. (verb) rise or set (of stars, etc.).
I te mea ka mōhiotia ngō pō e puta ai a Whānui ka whakapaia ngā rua, ka rere a Whānui ka tīmata te hauhake i ngā kai (TWMNT 11/9/1872:110). / Because the nights when the star Vega appeared where known, the storage pits were prepared and when Vega rose the harvesting of the food began.
7. (modifier) quickly, hurriedly, suddenly, completely, well and truly - used an adverb (i.e. to modify a verb) to indicate immediacy or to intensify.
Whiua reretia atu ana te pōro ki te paihau, kotahi atu ki te kokonga (HJ 2015:121). / The ball was passed quickly to the wing who headed straight for the corner.
Synonyms: kimonga kanohi, tere, wawe, tangetange
8. (noun) flight.
Pēnā tonu te rere a te kererū i te wā e mau ana tēnā kākano, ā, tata noa ki te horonga o tērā kākano, o te whanake (JPS 1895:132). / The flight of the New Zealand pigeon is like that during the time that the fruit lasts and until just before the seeds of the cabbage tree falls.
9. (noun) attack, charge, rush.
Mehemea e kapi ana a waho o te ngutu, kōkiritia tonutia ki waenganui tonu o te matua, engari kia inaki tonu te rere o ngā toa hāpai rākau ki mua (JPS 1919:86). / If outside the entrance is closely guarded, attack right at the middle of the army, but rush as a tightly packed group of warriors with weapons raised in front.
10. (noun) waterfall.
Ka kite ia i te rere, he nui te tiketike. Ka oho tōna mauri, e kore ia e eke ki runga (JPS 1905:200). / He found a waterfall, which was very high. He was startled, for he thought he would not be able to ascend it.
mauri rere
1. (stative) be panic-stricken.
Ka mauri rere te wahine i te pōhēhē ko tāna tamāhine i mate i te aituā. / The woman was panic-stricken because she thought her daughter had died in the accident.
Synonyms: maurirere, hopī, tūmekemeke
2. (modifier) panic-stricken.
Ka rongo te iwi mauri rere rā e pakū tonu ana ngā pū, whetē ana ngā karu tētahi ki tētahi, kāore i mōhio me oma rānei, me aha rānei (PK 2008:444). / When the panic-stricken tribe heard the guns going off continuously, they stared wide-eyed at one another, not knowing whether to run or what to do.
mate rere
1. (noun) contagious disease - a disease transmitted by contact.
He mate rere te rewharewha. E rere ana te rewharewha o te tāne ki tana wahine; o te tamaiti ki tōna hoa; o tētahi o te whānau ki ētahi (TTT 73:649). / Influenza is a contagious disease. It moves from a man to his wife; from a child to her friend; from a family member to others.
2. (noun) rush.
Nō ngā tau i muri mai ka hoki ngā mahara o tana mātāmua, o Frank, ki ngā rere tārewa whakaekeke mō te kōura, nā reira raka i kume a Eruera rātau ko tōna whānau ki Te Tai Poutini (TTR 1994:21). / In later years his eldest son, Frank, recalled the goldrushes which took Edward and his family to the West Coast.
Synonyms: patiko, oioi, rei, whakatūkawikawi, tuoma, teretere, hīrere, rere, tūpou, takaniti, takawhiti, wakewake
rere tipua
1. (noun) pyroclastic flow.
Ko te rere tipua o te tahepuia, koirā te pahū ake o te tokarewa, ka hū ake he maramara toka, he pungarehu, he haurehu, he toka nui hoki (RP 2009:380). / The pyroclastic flow of lava is the eruption of magma and the ejection of pieces of rock, ash, gas and large rocks.
rere whārōrō
1. (verb) to rush eagerly.
Nā tātou, nā ngā Pākehā ngā hē, rere whārōrō tonu te Māori ki runga - tē āta kimi mārire koe i te tika, i te hē (TWMNT 31/1/1872:37). / The mistakes are by us, the Pākehā, and the Māori rush eagerly into them without carefully discriminating between right and wrong.
manawa rere
1. (adjective) be impulsive, hasty, impetuous, headstrong.
Ko te mate o Hīnawa, he manawa rere. Totoko ake ana te whakaaro i a ia, whāia tonutia ake, kāore he tirotiro, he tawhitawhi (HJ 2017:68). / The problem with Hīnawa is that she's impulsive. As soon as an idea occurs to her, she pursues it without consideration or hesitation.
2. (modifier) impulsive, hasty, impetuous, headstrong.
Kātahi a Tūhaere ka whakahē i te Kīngitanga, arā, he kaupapa manawa rere, kore kiko hoki (TTR 1990:365). / Tūhaere criticised the King movement as being an impulsive plan without substance.
