τυφλό-ω,
blind, make blind, τινα [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὄμματα, ὄψιν, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 470, “Ph.” 764 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be blinded, to be or become blind, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.111; τυφλοῦμαι φέγγος ὀμμάτων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1035 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἕλκος τυφλωθέν a blinding wound (passive of τυφλόω ἕλκος inflict a blinding wound), [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 973 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically, blind, baffle, [[ 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 72, variant in 5th c.BC: Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus 25.26; τετύφλωται μόχθος 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 5(4).56; τῶν μελλόντων τετύφλωνται φραδαί [prev. author] “O.” 12.9, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 47b; τὴν ψυχὴν τυφλωθῆναι [prev. author] “Phd.” 99e, compare 96c; τ. περὶ τὸν φιλούμενον ὁ φιλῶν [prev. author] “Lg.” 731e. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II make blind or without passage, stop up, τὰς διόδους ἁμάξαις [[ 4th c.BC: Aeneas Tacticus 2.5 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τ. ὀφθαλμοὺς [ἀμπέλου] [[ “Geoponica” 5.9.7; τ. τὸν μαστόν ] Refs]makeit cease to yield milk, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 3.39 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—passive, βλάστησις τυφλουμένη [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 5.17.7; οὖρα τυφλοῦται 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 340; ἡ φωνὴ τυφλοῦται 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.721b; τυφλωθείσης τῆς τοῦ δέρματος τρώσεως 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 1.388 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—also in middle, τυφλώσατο νηδύς [[ 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 285. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]