ἀποπνίγω [ῑ],
future -πνίξω[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Comedy texts 198, 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 171] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist infinitive ἀποπνεῖξαι[[ “GDI” 2171.18 (Delph., 1st c.BC)] Refs 1st c.BC+]:—choke, throttle, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.169, +others; τὰς ἀναπνοάς 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἱερῆς νούσου” 9; τοὺς πατέρας τ᾽ ἦγχον.. καὶ τοὺς πάππους ἀπέπνιγον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1039] Refs 5th c.BC+]; suffocate, [[ [prev. author] “Eq.” 893 ] Refs]; of plants, choke, [[ NT.Matt.13.7, NT.Luke.8.7] NT]:—passive, future -πνῐγήσομαι[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1504;] Refs 5th c.BC+] also -πεπνίξομαι [[4th-5th c.AD: Eunapius Historicus “Vitae Sophistarum” p.463 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist I ἀπεπνίχθην[[ 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων ὀξέων παθῶν” 1.7: ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]aorist 2 ἀπεπνίγην [ῐ] (see. below): perfect participle -πεπνιγμένος[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.72] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—to bechoked, suffocated, τρώγων ἐρεβίνθους ἀπεπνίγη[[ 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 159, compare 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 266] Refs 5th c.BC+]; to be drowned, [[ 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 172, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 32.6, 5th-4th c.BC: Aesopus Fabularum Scriptor 352. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__b generally, cut off, kill, λιμῷ τινα[[ 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “ὀξέων νούσων θεραπευτικόν” 1.9] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—passive, πόλις ἀ. τῇ τῶν ἀναγκαίων σπάνει[[ 6th c.AD: Procopius Caesariensis Historicus “Historia Arcana” 26. ] Refs 6th c.AD+]
__2 metaphorically, choke one with vexation, ἀποπνίξεις με λαλῶν[[ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus [same place]; ἦ γάρ [με] γειτονεῦσ᾽ ἀποπνίγεις 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Iambi” 1.300] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—passive, to be choked with rage, ἐπί τινι at a thing, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.199, compare 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 16.7; πρός τι 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 63.15.] Refs 4th c.BC+]