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vt., To hold back, detain, restrain, prevent, repress, withhold, check, try to hold back, control.

• Examples:
  • Hiki ʻole ke kāohi, unrestrained, uncontrollable.
  • Kāohi iāia iho, to control himself.
  • E kāohi iho ʻoe i kou manaʻo kolohe, repress your mischievous thoughts.
  • Kāohi nā aliʻi iāia e noho, ʻaʻole ʻoia i ʻae mai, the chiefs tried to make him stay but he didn't consent.
  • Ka pali kāohi kumu aliʻi o ʻIao, the cliff withholding chiefly origins of ʻIao [burial place of chiefs].
  • Kāohi waʻa … kāohi aku (FS 127), to hold a canoe in place with a paddle while others cast for bonito.
• References:
  • See ex., ʻuoʻuo.
  • PPN taʻofi, PNP taaʻofi.

2. nvt., Style of chanting in which prolonged vowels are cut off with glottal stops; to chant thus.

• Rare

hamani To control. Kāohi ʻia ka maʻi ma ka ʻai ʻana i ka lāʻau. Sickness is controlled by taking medication. Dic. See entries below. Kulekele kāohi. Containment, as a government policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile power or ideology.

1. Withhold. 2. Hold back (PE).