2. (noun) destruction, annihilation, sacking.
Nāna i mau tana ope taua ki Rangitīkei me tana urupatu hoki i tētahi pā o Ngāti Apa i reira (TTR 1990:247). / He took his war party to Rangitīkei where he sacked a Ngāti Apa pā.
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