1. (verb) (-hia,-tia) to pull out, tear off, pull off, extract.
Ka mate te mātāika, me kohika te ngākau o te tūpāpaku hei patunga tapu ki ngā atua (White 1 1887:35). / When the first war victim dies the heart of the corpse should be extracted as a sacred offering to the atua.
Synonyms: unu, kōwhiti, tākiri, kume, whakatahi, maunu, unuunu, huhuti, huti, hutihuti, heu, kounu, auru, paunu, kōhiti
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