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potapota

1. (verb) to be broken into pieces, smashed into pieces.

Potapota noa ana ngā whare i taua hau, hikitia ana kāhakina haeretia ana i runga i te rangi, ka taea te koata māero te pāmamao, ka tukua whakareretia ki raro ki te whenua, potapota noa ana tēnā (TWMNT 30/8/1879:522). / The buildings were completely smashed by that wind having been lifted up and carried away into the sky for a quarter of a mile and then dashed down on the ground and smashed to pieces.

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