2. (verb) (-a) to terminate, wind up, liquidate - used particularly in a legal sense.
He tono kia whakamutua tētahi Kaporeihana (RT 2013:111). / An application to wind up a Corporation.
3. (modifier) terminating, ending, ceasing.
Ko Puna tonu tētehi o ngā tāngata tuatahi kia hāmenetia i raro i te mana o te Ture Whakamutu Tohunga 1907 (TTR 1996:222). / Puna was one of the first people to be prosecuted under the Tohunga Suppression Act 1907.
4. (noun) stopping, ceasing, ending, termination.
He whakamutu atu i te kai hikareti, tupeka rānei, a te tamariki, me te whaina i ngā tāngata whakawhiwhi i ngā tamariki ki aua mea (TJ 19/7/1900 suppl:7). / It's to stop children smoking cigarettes, or tobacco, and to fine people supplying children with those things.
