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Reduplication of wāhi; to tear down, shatter, wreck, dash to pieces, break into, demolish; to break, as a law or a twenty-dollar bill; to cause disorder.

• Examples:
  • Mīkini wāwahi pōhaku, rock crusher.
  • Wāwahi i ka hua, to break the egg.
  • Wāhi puʻupaʻa, to ravish a virgin.
  • Wāwahi pā hula, to disturb a hula show by presenting a rival show.
  • Wāwahi i ka manawa, to keep open an infant's fontanel by applying crushed pōpolo berries; it was believed that an infant might be fed through the fontanel.
• References:
  • Cf. pōhaku wāwahi waʻa and Gram. 6.2.1.
  • PCP waawasi.

hamani, To break, change, as a twenty-dollar bill, as a twenty-dollar bill.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word

hamani, To break apart, i.e. breaking a number into addends or factors, in math.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning

To tear down.