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καταβιβρώσκω

katabibrosko

eat up, devour

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Where it lives

Bel et Draco (LXX) 2 · 23.81/10k
Esdras II 2 · 1.69/10k
Siracides 1 · 0.54/10k
Phaedo 1 · 0.46/10k
Ezechiel 1 · 0.35/10k
Genesis 1 · 0.33/10k
Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

καταβιβρώσκω · katabibrōskō — LSJ

eat up, devour, to be corroded

v. ἐσθίω), aor. κατέβρων h.Ap. 127: pf. Pass. καταβέβρωμαι: aor. κατεβρώθην (v. infr.):—eat up, devour, h.Ap. l.c.; καταβεβρωκὼς σιτία ἴσως ἐλεφάντων τεττάρων Antiph. 82: metaph., καταβεβρώκασι . . τὰς οὐσίας Hegesipp.Com. 1.30; τὰ ὄντα Hyp. Fr. 249:—Pass., ὑπὸ εὐλέων κατεβρώθη Hdt. 3.16; κατεβρώθη ὑπὸ τῶν ἰδίων κυνῶν Palaeph. 6; καταβέβρωται Hdt. 4.199; ὑπʼ ἰχθύων prob. in Phld. Mort. 32; to be corroded, Pl. Phd. 110a.

In the wild

καταβιβρωσκόμενος · katabibrōskomenos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9302)
καταβρωθῇ · katabrōthēi Herodotus, Histories 3.16.4 (DIORISIS sentence 2983)
καταβέβρωται · katabebrōtai Herodotus, Histories 4.199.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5331)
καταβεβρωμένα · katabebrōmena Plato, Phaedo 110 (DIORISIS sentence 1127)
καταβρωθῇ · katabrōthēi Septuaginta, Bel et Draco (LXX) (DIORISIS sentence 33)
κατεβρώθησαν · katebrōthēsan Septuaginta, Bel et Draco (LXX) (DIORISIS sentence 45)

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