2. (modifier) making defecate, excreting, moving the bowels, emptying the bowels.
Me hoatu he rongoā whakatikotiko (TTT 1/11/1927:688). / Medicine to make the bowels move should be administered.
3. (modifier) large, vast, extensive, immense.
Ka whakaanga atu te Ope Taua Māori rātou ko the Matua o Aotaearoa katoa ki te Afrika Korps o Erwin Rommel, rātou ko ngā taua o Itari, i roto i te koraha whakatikotiko o Awherika ki te Raki (OTM 2016). / The Māori Battalion and all the New Zealand Division would confront Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps and Italian forces in the vast North African desert.
Synonyms: kūpara, matarahi, rarahi, katete, korahi, tetere, matararahi, mātua, nunui, whakahara, mokorahi, pūhetī, kaitā, mātuatua, mokorarahi, rahi, pūwharu, pūharu, pūwheti, tuangea, ruarangi, nui, hira
