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1. (verb) to grow, be abundant.
Ka puta te pepeha a Tamaruarangi, "Ka oi noa ngā kai o te kāinga o Tamaruarangi." (W 1971:238). / Tamaruarangi produced the saying, "The food of Tamaruarangi's home has become abundant." (A pepeha said when Tamaruarangi heard many bird calls at night made by enemy warriors before his pā was attacked and fell the next day.)
