tāmi
1. (verb) (-a) to press down, suppress, repress, squash, quash, smother, oppress, crush.
I te kaha warea o rātou kia ōrite te mana o ngā reo katoa e kōrerotia ana i Whītī kua tāmia haerehia te reo ake o reira nā reira kua tahuri anō te kāwanatanga o reira ki te kimi huarahi e kore ai tērā āhua (HM 4/1998). / Because they have been so intent on equal status for all the languages spoken in Fiji, the indigenous language there has been suppressed, so the government has set about finding a way to reverse that.
Synonyms: whakakorekore, whakakore, whākorekore, pēhipēhi, kaupēhi, koropehu, whakakōmau, tāmoe, aupēhi, pēhi, whakapēhi, tātāmi, nonope, whakawhiu, where, kaupēhipēhi
2. (noun) suppression, oppression, repression, subjugation, quashing, clampdown.
Ki taku whakaaro me mutu te tāmi i ngā kupu a ngā tūtūā (TKP 1/11/1858:3). / I think we should stop suppressing the words of the ordinary people.
