whakahemohemo
1. (verb) (-a) to be on the point of death, close to death, dying.
He kupu mana te kupu a te tangata e whakahemohemo ana; mehemea he rangatira ia, ā he tino tangata pai, ka tino puritia atu ana kupu whakamutunga ki te iwi (TP 8/1909:1). / The word of a dying person has status; if he is a chief and a good person his last words are remembered.
