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nvt., Massacre, slaughter, destruction; to massacre, destroy, slaughter, lay waste, devastate, exterminate, ravage.

• Examples:
  • Mea luku wale, vandal, one who destroys needlessly.
  • Hele luku, go on a raid.
  • Wailuku (place name), waters [of] destruction.
  • Luku hoʻopapau, annihilate, destroy completely.
• References:
  • PEP lutu.

v. To make a slaughter, i. e., to kill a multitude, as in a severe battle; to overthrow; to destroy; to slay, as in war. Oihk. 26:17.

2. FIG. To smite; to destroy, as with a pestilence. Nah. 14:12. To root out or utterly lay waste a people. NOTE.—Luku applies mostly to the destruction of a great many at once; to make havoc; to root out. The word is also mostly confined to the first conjugation; it is applied also to an extensive cutting up and destroying of vines and fig trees. Hos. 2:14.

s. Slaughter; a destruction of people on a large scale. Isa. 34:6. The rooting out or utter destruction of a people.

adj. Mea luku, a destroyer. Puk. 12:23.

Causing slaughter or destruction; destructive; mea luku, destructive thing.

1. Slaughter; a destruction of people on a large scale; the rooting out or utter destruction of a people.

2. Wholesale destruction of any living thing.

1. To slaughter, that is, to kill a multitude, as in a severe battle; to overthrow; to destroy; to slay, as in war.

2. Fig. To smite; to destroy, as with a pestilence; to root out or utterly lay waste a people. (Luku applies to the destruction of a great many at once; to make havoc; to root out.)

3. To destroy anything as a whole; to exterminate.

slaughter, wholesale destruction.