kōhuru
1. (verb) (-tia) to act treacherously, ill-treat, murder, assassinate - the infliction of serious injury without just cause. Has connotations of treachery and stealth.
I te ata ka kitea kua kōhuru te kōtiro i a ia. E takoto tahanga ana i te hope ki te kakī - he mea pupuhi nāna tōna uma ki te pū (TKO 12/5/1918:10). / In the morning is was discovered that the girl had murdered him. He lay naked from the waist to the neck - she had shot him in the chest with the gun.
2. (modifier) treacherously.
Nō te 5 o ngā rā o Āperira ka pūhia kōhurutia te Piriniha o Weiri ki te teihana o te rerewē i Parahara, te tino tāone o Peratiamu, e tētahi tamaiti tāne, 15 ngā tau ko Hipito te ingoa, engari kāore te Piriniha i tū (TP 1/4/1900:11). / On 5 April the Prince of Wales was treacherously shot at the railway station in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, by a 15 year old boy, whose name was Sipido, but the Prince was not wounded.
3. (noun) murder, homicide, assassination.
Ki tō te Māori ritenga, mehemea i patua tētahi tangata i te wā o te whawhai, ehara tērā i te kōhuru (TWMNT 18/6/1873:63). / According to Māori custom, if somebody was killed at the time of war that is not murder.
Synonyms: whakapiko, whakamate kōhuru
