The corpus record

διόλλῡμι

diollumi

destroy utterly, bring to naught

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Where it lives

Heracles 10 · 12.78/10k
Trojan Women 6 · 8.48/10k
Rhesus 3 · 5.58/10k
Crito 2 · 4.8/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 4 · 4.32/10k
Suppliants 3 · 4.26/10k
Suppliant Maidens 2 · 4.15/10k
Trachiniae 3 · 4.13/10k
Orestes 4 · 4.08/10k
Electra 3 · 3.97/10k
Persians 2 · 3.93/10k
Statesman 6 · 3.54/10k

Densest 12 of 35 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

διόλλῡμι · diollymi — LSJ

destroy utterly, bring to naught, ruin, perish utterly, come to naught

destroy utterly, bring to naught, Emp. 139, S. OT 442, Tr. 1028 (lyr.), Pl. Cri. 47c, etc.; δ. γυναῖκα ruin a woman, E. El. 921:— Pass., with fut. -ολοῦμαι, pf. -όλωλα, perish utterly, come to naught, Th. 3.40, etc.; διώλετο ἔκ τινος by some oneʼs hand, S. OT 225.

II blot out of oneʼs mind, forget

blot out of oneʼs mind, forget, εἰδὼς διώλεσα ib. 318.

In the wild

διόλωλεν · diolōlen Aeschylus, Persians 589–590
διώλλυθʼ · diōllythʼ Aeschylus, Persians 482–487
διώλου · diōlou Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 843–850
διωλόμεσθʼ · diōlomesthʼ Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 904
διόλλυμαι · diollymai Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 909)
διολέσαι · diolesai Euripides, Bacchae 1303–1309

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Where it came from

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