1. (verb) to be smooth, bare, without appendages.
2. (modifier) wiped out, obliterating, eliminiating.
Heoi nō te tekau tau 1950, kua pau monemone ēnei tikanga, ā, ka tahuri ki te tikanga o te whakawhiu (Te Ara 2016). / However, by the 1950s these practices were disappearing and there was a change harsher discipline.
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