ἐκ-θλίβω [ῑ],
squeeze out, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 578b4, 626a20, 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 2p.50U., 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 626 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—passive, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 522a20 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; to be forced from one's position, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Sulla” 19. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__2 passive, to be crowded, cramped, of troops, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.4.19. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 squeeze, press, σταφυλήν [[ LXX.Gen.40.11 ] LXX]:—passive, aorist 2 participle ἐκθλῐβείς [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.112. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__3.b squeeze out, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 342a9 (_passive_). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__4 Grammars, elide a letter at the beginning or end of a word, οὐ γὰρ οἷόν τε εὑρέσθαι τὸ ῡ -όμενον [[ 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Conjunctionibus;” 228.17, compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Demosthene” 43. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]