whakahuri
1. (verb) (-hia) to turn, convert, change.
Ko tētahi mahi rerekē anō āna ko te whakamau atu i tētahi kūaha ki te tuarongo o te whare nui, me te whakahuri ake i te urupā hei papa karaihe, i mua rā e māheuheu, e mahue noa ana (TTR 2000:119). / A radical idea of his was cutting a door to the rear of the meeting house, and he also converted the overgrown and neglected burial ground into a lawn cemetery.