paheno
1. (verb) to slip away, escape, become untied.
Pupuri tonu ia i taua wahine ao noa te rā, kātahi ka paheno atu i ōna ringa i te hauaitu, riro atu ana (TWMNT 21/9/1875:212). / He held on to that woman until the sun rose she finally slipped from his arms because of hypothermia and she was gone.