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To release, let go, put down, dismiss, send away, abandon, disperse, adjourn; to expel, as from school; to discharge, as from work; to free, acquit, let, permit, excuse, exempt, liberate; to settle, clear up; slope of a hill (rare).

• Examples:
  • Hīmeni hoʻokuʻu, closing hymn.
  • Kī hoʻokuʻu, slack key.
  • Hihia ua hoʻokuʻu ʻia, case [of law] settled.
  • Hoʻokuʻu kāua, let's stop [as a meeting].
  • Hoʻokuʻu ʻia mai ka hopu ʻia ʻana, exemption from arrest.
  • Hoʻokuʻu maikaʻi, honorable discharge.
• References:
  • See kuʻu #1.

hamani, To flush a toilet.

• Source:
  • Niʻihau.
• Examples:
  • Mai poina i ka hoʻokuʻu i ka wai o ka lua. Donʻt forget to flush the toilet.
• Related:
  • Also: hoʻoholo i ka wai.
  • ʻAu hoʻokuʻu wai o ka lua. Toilet handle; preceded by ke.

hamani, As from a gland, in biology. To secrete.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning
• Examples:
  • Na ke kahu lōkuʻu e hoʻokuʻu aku i nā hōmona, he mau ʻelele kemikala no nā lōkuʻu ʻē aʻe o ke kino. It is the pituitary gland that secretes the hormones which act as chemical messengers for the other glands on the body.

1. To release; to relinquish. 2. A place that slopes gradually downward (SMK). 3. To release, let go, dismiss, send away, abandon, adjourn; to free, acquit, let, permit, exempt; to settle, clear up; slope of a hill (PE). 4. To dismiss; to let go; to absolve; to release; to set free or release from obligation (AP).