maroro
1. (verb) to be wasted, destroyed.
Ka kai tonu nei hoki te wai i te whenua, arā i a Papatūānuku, kia riro ai hoki ngā rākau kaha i a ia ki waho i te moana, kia maroro katoa ai hoki te whenua a Tāne i a ia (NM 1928:3). / The water continually eats away the land, that is Papatūānuku, so that he carries off the strong trees out to sea, and in that way he destroys all the land of Tāne.
