The corpus record

ὑγρ-αίνω

ugraino

wet, moisten

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Where it lives

Fragments 1 · 2.51/10k
Helen 2 · 2.04/10k
Timaeus 4 · 1.69/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
On Hunting 1 · 1.1/10k
Job 1 · 0.75/10k
Enneads 3 · 0.14/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant — LSJ

wet, moisten, water, collect in pools, to be liquefied, is liquefied

wet, moisten, X. Cyn. 5.3, Pl. R. 335d; of a river, water a country, E. Tr. 226 (lyr.), Hel. 3; βλέφαρον ὑ. δάκρυσιν ib. 673 (lyr.); πηγαῖς οὐχ ὑγραίνουσιν πόδας Id. Fr. 367:—Pass., of water, collect in pools, and of solids, to be liquefied, Arist. Mete. 382b28; opp. ξηραίνεσθαι, Id. PA 653b3, HA 557b11, etc.; τὸ ὑγρανθὲν [μέρος] the part which is liquefied, Pl. Ti. 51b.

2 relax

relax the bowels, Hp. Aph. 3.17:—Pass., ib. 2.20.

In the wild

ὑγραινόμενοι · hygrainomenoi Epictetus, Fragments (DIORISIS sentence 232)
ὑγραίνει · hygrainei Euripides, Helen *(ele/nh (DIORISIS sentence 1)
ὑγραίνω · hygrainō Euripides, Helen (DIORISIS sentence 448)
ὑγραίνει · hygrainei Euripides, Trojan Women 2 (DIORISIS sentence 109)
ὑγραίνειν · hygrainein Plato, Republic 1.335 (DIORISIS sentence 273)
ὑγρανθὲν · hygranthen Plato, Timaeus 51 (DIORISIS sentence 405)

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Where it came from

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