1. (noun) heat of battle.
Nō muri i tuhia ake e ia ngā whiti waiata maha hai whakamaharatanga ki ōna hoa i hinga i te mura o te ahi (TTR 2000:10). / He later wrote numerous poems in remembrance of his comrades who fell in the heat of battle.
See also muramura o te ahi
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