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tukupunga

1. (verb) (-hia,-tia) to drown, murder by drowning.

Ka mate taua Pākehā i a Kīngi, nāna, nā Kīngi, i tukupunga te tūpāpaku ki te moana (TW 27/4/1878:187). / That Pākehā was killed by Kīngi, and he, Kīngi, drowned the deceased at sea.

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