kupu whakapae
1. (noun) accusation, allegation.
Heoi ko ngā kupu whakapae ko ā Maketū i whāki ai ki a Thomas Spicer, nāna rā te toa i Kororāreka (TTR 1990:43). / The evidence against Maketū were his confessions to Thomas Spicer, who owned the store at Russell.
Synonyms: whakapaepae, whakapā hē, heitara, whakapae