hūrau
1. (verb) to meddle with, interfere with, tamper with, handle.
Engari nō te taenga mai o tētahi iwi kē, iwi mārama atu i a tātau, he rerekē nei tana kaupapa wāriu, ka taututetute ngā take, ka hūrau ngā mahara tika, ka riro i tā te Pākehā (TTT 1/10/1927:672). / But when a foreign people arrived here, people with clearer ideas than us, and who had different values, reasons conflicted and what was considered appropriate was meddled with and what the Pākehā did dominated.
