The corpus record

ξηραίνω

xeraino

parch, dry up

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Where it lives

Joel 6 · 38.96/10k
De longitudine et brevitate vitae 3 · 17.04/10k
1 Peter 2 · 11.6/10k
Nahum 1 · 10.83/10k
Amos 2 · 6.5/10k
Zacharias 3 · 6.22/10k
James 1 · 5.85/10k
Mark 6 · 5.45/10k
Isaias 14 · 5.33/10k
Lamentationes 1 · 4.29/10k
Job 5 · 3.75/10k
Osee 1 · 2.65/10k

Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

parch, dry up, make costive, to be, become dry, parched, to be withered

parch, dry up, ξηρανεῖ σʼ ὁ Βάκχιος E. l.c.; of the sun, X. Mem. 4.3.8, etc.; τὸ σῶμα πρὸς ἀέρα ξ. Jul. Or. 6.203b ; make costive, τὴν κοιλίην Hp. Aph. 3.17, cf. 2.20 (Pass.):—Pass., to be or become dry, parched, ἐξηράνθη πεδίον Il. l.c., cf. Pl. Ti. 88d, etc. ; to be withered, ἐξηράνθη ἡ συκῆ Ev.Matt. 21.19, cf. Demetr.Lac. Herc. 1012.12, POxy. l.c.

2 drain dry

drain dry, ξηράνας τὴν διώρυχα Th. 1.109.

metaph., κακουχεῖ αὑτὸν καὶ ξ. Teles p. 34 H.

Pass., of a paralytic, Ev.Marc. 9.18.

In the wild

ξηραίνεσθαι · xērainesthai Aristotle, De longitudine et brevitate vitae (DIORISIS sentence 28)
ξηραίνει · xērainei Aristotle, De longitudine et brevitate vitae (DIORISIS sentence 37)
ξηραίνει · xērainei Aristotle, De longitudine et brevitate vitae (DIORISIS sentence 39)
ξηραινομένων · xērainomenōn Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 170)
ξηρανθεῖσαν · xērantheisan Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1155b (DIORISIS sentence 2643)
ξηρανθέντα · xēranthenta Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.6 (DIORISIS sentence 7919)

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