paroparo
1. (stative) be dried-up, shrunk, wilted, withered.
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.
Synonyms: kōmae, kātoatoa, taramore, tīangoango, pāohe, pīngongo, pakoko, piako
