2. (verb) (-ina) to drive out, reject.
Opa nā, koa nge au, ko te wahine nāna i hari mai te toki pounamu, hei taratarai atu i te poupou kia ngaongao ai (NIT 1995:69). / I rejected the woman who brought the greenstone adze to fashion the wall-pillars, to dress them with the markings of the toki.
Synonyms: whakareretanga, parahako, ākiri, kape, whakahoe, whakarere
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