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whakarae

1. (verb) to face directly, look someone in the face.

Nā ka honoa ō rāua mātua ko Utarama, whakarae tonu atu ki te ope nui o te hoariri i reira (MM.TKM 15/7/1858:5). / Their and James Outram's divisions joined together and there they faced the great army of the enemy.

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2. (verb) to heap, pile up, store.

Ka tohutohutia mai aua tāngata, "E tae ki te wā e whakarae ai te kūmara ki te rua, me patu a Tuakata, kei hoki mai te mauri o te kūmara ki Hawaiki nei." (TTT 1/9/1929:1074). / Those people were instructed, "When it comes the time when the kūmara are stored in the pit, Tuakata should be killed lest the mauri of the kūmara return to Hawaiki."

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Synonyms: tōhī, whakaahu, whakaputu, whakatahua, whakapipi, tōhīhī


3. (verb) to stand out, be prominent.

Whakarae tonu au, he maire tū wao, mā te toki e tua (W 1971:320). / I am quite prominent, a maire tree that stands in the forest, which can be felled with an axe.

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4. (modifier) prominent, stand out, important.

Ko tōna pāpā ko Te Taonui, he rangatira whakarae nō roto o Te Popoto, ā, nō te iriiringa, i tapaina a Te Taonui pakeke ki a Makoare, te ingoa o te kāwana i Poihākena, arā, a Lachlan Macquarie (TTR 1994:116). / His father was Te Taonui, a prominent chief of Te Popoto, and when he was baptised as an adult Te Taonui was named Makoare, the name of the governor of Sydney, Lachlan Macquarie.

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Synonyms: matararahi, koutu, tāpua, koure, whakaea, whakahī, kōhure, hōhō, ahurei, tutū


5. (noun) heap, pile.

Te tomokanga atu o tōna tuahine ki te whata, ka kite atu ia i te whakarae o te aruhe (W 1971:320). / When his sister entered the storehouse she saw the pile of fernroot.

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Synonyms: pūkainga, haupū, tōhīanga, purawhetū, kauika, whakapū, whakaputu, kōputu, pūhanga, pūkei, putunga, whakarauika, whakapipi, whārona, pūkai, taipū, whakaputunga

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