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ἀποπνίγω [ι_], fut.
A.“-πνίξω” Pl. Com.198, Antiph.171: aor. inf. “ἀποπνεῖξαι” GDI2171.18 (Delph., i B. C.):—choke, throttle, Hdt.2.169,al.; “τὰς ἀναπνοάς” Hp.Morb.Sacr.9; “τοὺς πατέρας τ᾽ ἦγχον . . καὶ τοὺς πάππους ἀπέπνιγον” Ar.V.1039; suffocate, Id.Eq.893; of plants, choke, Ev. Matt. 13.7, Ev.Luc. 8.7:—Pass., fut. “-πνι^γήσομαι” Ar.Nu.1504; also “-πεπνίξομαι” Eun.VSp.463 B.: aor. I “ἀπεπνίχθην” Aret.SA1.7: aor. 2 ἀπεπνίγην [ι^] (v. infr.): pf. part. “-πεπνιγμένος” Hdt.4.72:—to bechoked, suffocated, “τρώγων ἐρεβίνθους ἀπεπνίγη” Pherecr.159, cf.Alex. 266; to be drowned, Democr.172, D.32.6, Aesop.352.
b. generally, cut off, kill, “λιμῷ τινα” Aret.CA1.9:—Pass., “πόλις ἀ. τῇ τῶν ἀναγκαίων σπάϝει” Procop.Arc.26.
2. metaph., choke one with vexation, “ἀποπνίξεις με λαλῶν” Antiph. l.c.; “ἦ γάρ [με] γειτονεῦσ᾽ ἀποπνίγεις” Call.Iamb. 1.300:—Pass., to be choked with rage, ἐπί τινι at a thing, D.19.199, cf. Alex.16.7; “πρός τι” Lib.Or.63.15.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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