rehurehu
1. (verb) to decline, set.
Ka rehurehu te rā, e kōre tātou e tae (W 1971:334). / The sun will set and we will not make it.
Synonyms: totoka, tetepe, whakanoho, whakanohonoho, pō, ahuahu, kōpā, whakamohiki, whakarākei
2. (verb) to be seen indistinctly.
Ka hīkoi ia i te mānia o Kāingaroa tae atu ki ngā tahataha o te awa o Waikato, mā reira ki te tihi o Tauhara, ki reira mātakitaki ai i te moana o Taupō me te maunga o Tongariro e rehurehu mai rā i te tonga (Te Ara 2013). / He travelled crossed the Kāingaroa Plains reaching the banks of the Waikato River before climbing the summit of Tauhara mountain and surveying Lake Taupō and Mt Tongariro indistinctly seen in the south.
Synonyms: whakarehurehu
3. (verb) to have premonitions.
Nō te 2 o Ākuhata, i rehurehu a Awatere tērā ka pā he aituā ki a Hākaraia (TTR 2000:11). / On 2 August Awatere experienced premonitions that an accident would happen to Hākaraia.
4. (noun) indistinctness, blurredness.
Mēnā he pōturi te huranga kōpani, kātahi nā te rehurehu o te mea nekeneke (RTA 2014:81). / If the shutter speed is too slow then the moving object will be blurry.
