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karapoi

1. (verb) (-tia) to surround, hedge in, encircle.

Ka pau hoki i a rātou ngā iwi katoa i te taha matau, i te taha mauī, ā karapoi noa; ā tērā a Hiruhārama e noho ano i runga i tōna tūranga, arā i Hiruhārama (PT Hakaraia 12:6). / And they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

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