korehāhā
1. (verb) to be annihilated, extinct, eradicated, exterminated, become obsolete.
I te wā nei kua ngingio, kua paroparo noa iho te pūtea a te Taura Whiri, otirā anei pea e whai ake nei tētahi ara e oraiti ai ngā kupu-ā-iwi kua korehāhā haere (HM 1/1994:3). / At the moment the Māori Language Commission's funding has dried-up and shrunk, but here perhaps the following is a way whereby the dialectal words that are becoming obsolete can survive.
2. (noun) annihilation, extinction, eradication, extermination.
Kāore rātou i pīrangi kia hoepapatia a Ngāti Toa ki te korehāhā (TTR 1990:298). / They did not wish to see Ngāti Toa destroyed to the point of extinction.
