tārū
1. (modifier) painful, acute, severe.
Atu i 1927, tata ana te noho pūmau a te māuiui i runga i a Te Rata. E whakamamaetia ana e te rūmātiki tārū i ngā tau whakamutunga e toru o tōna koiora (TTR 1996:229). / Te Rata had been ill almost continuously from 1927. In the last three years of his life he suffered from acute rheumatism.
Synonyms: mamae, whakamamae, pāwerawera, pāmamae, hīrawerawe, tārūrū
