1. (verb) to weep copious tears, shed many tears, blubber.
E rua, e rua ēnā koroua ki konā rohi ai, wairutu ai i te rironga ōu (HM 4/2009:4). / There both those elderly men were grieving and weeping copious tears because you had been taken.
Synonyms: wairurutu
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