1. (verb) to be diminished, lessened, waned.
Nō te pōti o 1884, ka hinga a Tomoana i a Wī Pere, engari kīhai tana mana rangatira i taiharahara (TTR 1994:193). / In the 1884 election Tomoana was defeated by Wī Pere, but his chiefly mana was undiminished.
Synonyms: māhaki
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