whakangehe
1. (verb) to render calm, pacify, submit.
Kua takoto he kai ki tō rātou pā, nui noa atu, kia rua tekau pea ngā tau e kai ana, e kore e pau. Nā konei mahue ake te whakaaro kia waiho mā te hiakai e whakangehe e horo ai te pā (MM.TKM 31/8/1857:5). / They had laid out plenty of provisions in their fort, and could be eating for twenty years and not run out. So the idea of starving the people into submission, whereby the fort would fall, was abandoned.
Synonyms: whakarangimārie, whakamahuru, whakamārie, whakamāriri, whakamāhaki, whakamāria, whakamārire, whakaepaepa, whakarata
