διωθ-έω,
aorist διῶσα [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (see. below), διέωσα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.1.8, ἐδίωσα codices in 2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Automatopoetica” 24.3 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—push asunder, tear away, [πτελέη] ἐκ ῥιζέων ἐριποῦσα κρημνὸν.. διῶσε the elm as it fell uprooted tore the bank away, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.244; διώσας καὶ κατακτείνας ἐχθρούς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 995 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; drive apart, τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν τὰς διεξόδους [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 67e. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 thrust through, τι διά τινος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.1.8, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 21.28.14. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II more frequently in middle (future διώσομαι [[ 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 191)] Refs 3rd c.AD+], force one's way through, break through, τὰ γέρρα [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.102; τὸν ὄχλον 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.39; τὰς τάξεις 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 11.1.12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δ. τὴν ὕλην, of roots, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 8.11.8 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὴν θάλατταν, of a river, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.41.4. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II.2 push from oneself, push away, τοῖς κόντοις διεωθοῦντο, of sailors, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.84; ἡ γαστὴρ δ. τὸ περιττὸν εἰς τὴν νῆστιν 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 5.567 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; repulse, στρατὸν ἰθυμαχίῃ [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.102; οἷς [πέτροις].. διώσει στρατόν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 199.9 (Dobr.); κῆρας 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus [same place]; τὰς τύχας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 315 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ψευδῆ λόγον καὶ συκοφαντίαν repel it, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.124; τὴν ἐπιβουλήν [prev. author] 58.65 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: absolutely, get rid of danger, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.88. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]