The corpus record

ἀχρει-όω

achreioo

render useless, disable, damage

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Where it lives

Daniel (LXX) 1 · 0.95/10k
Regnorum IV 1 · 0.58/10k

What it meant — LSJ

render useless, disable, damage, to be corrupted

render useless, disable, damage, Dicaearch. 2.3, Plb. 3.64.8, LXX Da. 4.11, OGI l.c.:—Pass., ἀχρεῶσθαι SIG 569.31 (Crete, iii B.C.), cf. Plb. 1.14.6, BCH 35.286 (Delos, ii B.C.); to be corrupted, LXX Ps. 13(14).3; διʼ ἀπειρίαν ἠχρειώθησαν Apollon.Cit. 1.1.

In the wild

ἀχρειῶσαι · achreiōsai Septuaginta, Daniel (LXX) 4
ἀχρειώσετε · achreiōsete Septuaginta, Regnorum IV 3

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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