tipi hauraro
1. (verb) to exterminate, annihilate, decimate, eradicate, wipe out, mow down - sometimes as one word, i.e. tipihauraro (-tia).
Nā! tā te toa hanga, ka tipia haurarotia te hunga e kōkiri mai rā; tokowhitu nā te ringa ake o Ngārimu (Ngārimu VC citation). / This they did with such good effect that the attackers were mown down; seven by Ngārimu's own hand.
