2. (verb) to be engrossed, occupied, absorbed, preoccupied, encumbered.
Ahakoa torutoru noa iho nei te rōpū hōia Pākehā me ō rātou āpiha i rokohanga ki reira, tāuteute ana i ngā wāhine, i ngā tamariki (MM.TKM 15/7/1858:3). / Although there were just a handful of Pākehā soldiers and their officers there, they were encumbered with a number of women and children.
Synonyms: kapi, māharahara, warea kē, pakihaha
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