κατ-ᾰράσσω,
Attic dialect καταράττω, dash down, break in pieces, ὁ παῖς ἐμπεσὼν κατήραξε (i.e. τὴν κύλικα) [[ 6th c.BC: Hipponax Iambographus 38:] Refs 6th c.BC+] —passive, [[ ἡ θύρη κατήρακται 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 2.63 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: metaphorically, διασείειν καὶ κ. τὰ βουλεύματα conjecture for ταράττειν in [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Dem.Enc.” 38; especially of a broken and routed army, τοὺς λοιποὺς κατήραξεν ἐς τὸν Κιθαιρῶνα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.69; κ. εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν ἅπαντας 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.165; τὸ στράτευμα κατηράχθη εἰς τὰ τειχίσματα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.6, compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 9.58, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “An.” 5.17.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future middle in passive sense, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Caes.” 44. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II of sea-birds, κ. αὑτοὺς εἰς τὰς κεφαλὰς αὐτῶν dash down head foremost, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mir.” 836a13: but more frequently ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.2 intransitive, fall down, fall headlong, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Clearchus Historicus 44 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of rain, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mu.” 392b10 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of rivers, εἰς τὸ Χάσμα κ. [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.75, compare 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 10.48.7, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 14.4.1: with _genitive_, τοῦ ἀγγείου, of a stream of water, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 10.554. (Freq. written καταρρ-, augment κατερρ-, in part perhaps correctly, if from κατα-ρρᾱσσω, compare ῥάσσω, ἐπιρράσσω.) ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]