whakakorokoro
1. (verb) (-a,-ngia,-tia) to loosen.
Ko te mea tino uaua rawa ko te pātuki i te kāwanatanga kia whakakorokoroa ngā here o ngā whakataunga o ngā wā ka huri (TTT 1/3/1929:941). / The really difficult thing is to make the government loosen the ties of decisions made in the past.
Synonyms: tākiri, whakamatara, tangatanga, maunu, whakakaewa, whakatangatanga, hangoro, whakangoru, tākōkō
