1. (verb) (-tia) to shout at (in order to drive something or someone away), shoo away.
Ka huri te koroua rā ki te whakahie i ngā tamariki e whātaretare mai ana i te kēti (PK 2008:1084). / That elderly man set about shooing away the children who were peering in at the gate.
Synonyms: atiatia atu
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