The corpus record

ἐκτυφλ-όω

ektuphloo

make quite blind

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Where it lives

Zacharias 2 · 4.15/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
On the Art of Horsemanship 1 · 1.44/10k
Plutus 1 · 1.24/10k
Frogs 1 · 1.1/10k
Exodus 2 · 0.84/10k
Regnorum IV 1 · 0.58/10k
Deuteronomium 1 · 0.45/10k
Discourses 3 · 0.4/10k
Isaias 1 · 0.38/10k
Jeremias 1 · 0.36/10k
Histories 2 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

ἐκτυφλ-όω · ektyphl-oō — LSJ

make quite blind

make quite blind, τινά Batr. 238, Hdt. 4.2, 9.93, X. Eq. 10.2, Ar. Pl. 301, etc.; ἐκτυφλοῦν τινʼ ἀστραπή Antiph. 195.4: abs., κονιορτὸς ἐκτυφλῶν Ar. Fr. 569.2:—Pass., λαμπτῆρες ἐκτυφλωθέντες σκότῳ (expl. by σβεσθέντες in Sch.) A. Ch. 536: metaph., Philostr. VA 4.36; of buds destroyed by hail, Id. Her. 2.11.

In the wild

ἐκτυφλωθέντες · ektyphlōthentes Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 536–537
ἐξετύφλωσεν · exetyphlōsen Aristophanes, Frogs 1195
ἐκτυφλῶσαι · ektyphlōsai Aristophanes, Plutus 1 (DIORISIS sentence 240)
ἐκτυφλωθῆναι · ektyphlōthēnai Epictetus, Discourses 1.20 (DIORISIS sentence 1090)
ἐκτυφλῶσαι · ektyphlōsai Epictetus, Discourses 1.27 (DIORISIS sentence 1449)
ἐκτυφλῶσαι · ektyphlōsai Epictetus, Discourses 1.27 (DIORISIS sentence 1447)

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Where it came from

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