1. (noun) Pākehā disease, foreign illness - illnesses and diseases introduced by Pākehā since colonisation as opposed to mate Māori which are psychosomatic illnesses attributed to transgressions of tapu or to mākutu.
Ka haumate te iwi i ngā mate Pākehā (Te Ara 2014). / The population was devastated by European diseases.
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