1. (verb) (-a,-hia,-tia) to expel, banish, deport.
I reira ka whakakakapatia e Ngāpora he tauira o te pukapuka a Hōri Kerei o te tau 1863, e pānui ana me tūhiti ngā Māori e noho ana i te tonga o Ākarana (TTR 1990:72). / There Ngāpora flourished a copy of George Grey's proclamation of 1863 that Māori should be expelled from South Auckland.
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