whakatataha
1. (verb) to put to one side, pass by, turn aside, evade.
Ka rumarumakina e Ruatapu te hokowhitu tama, mate katoa, ko Kahutia kāore i taea e ia te rumaki, whakatataha a Kahutia i a ia (TW 26/10/1878:538). / Ruatapu drowned the army of boys, and they all died, but he was not able to drown Kahutia, because Kahutia evaded him.
Synonyms: whakarere, kape, kopa, tohipa, tāhapa, numi, pahemo, pahure, paneke, whakatipi, whakataha, taha, tīpoka, pahika, hiemi, hihipa, hemo, hipa, whakahipa
