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|strgr=from [[κατά]] and [[στρέφω]]; to [[turn]] upside [[down]], i.e. [[upset]]: [[overthrow]].

|txtha=1st aorist κατέστρεψα; [[perfect]] [[passive]] participle κατεστραμμενος (T (WH, [[but]] Tr κατεστρεμμενος; cf. WH's Appendix, p. 170f));<br /><b class="num">1.</b> to [[turn]] [[over]], [[turn]] [[under]]: the [[soil]] [[with]] a plow, [[Xenophon]], oec. 17,10.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[overturn]], [[overthrow]], [[throw]] [[down]]: τί, τά κατεστραμμενος, ruins), T Tr WH (cf. [[κατασκάπτω]])); so Josephus, Antiquities 8,7, 6; Anthol. 11,163,6; ([[Diogenes]] Laërtius 5,82.

|mdlsjtxt=fut. ψω<br /><b class="num">I.</b> to [[turn]] [[down]], [[trample]] on, Hhymn.: to [[turn]] the [[soil]], Xen.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> to [[upset]], [[overturn]], Ar.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> Mid. to [[subject]] to [[oneself]], to [[subdue]], Hdt., Thuc., etc.; κατεστρέψατο ἐς φόρου ἀπαγωγήν [[subdued]] and made them [[tributary]], Hdt.; so, Ἰωνίην κατεστρέψατο δασμοφόρον [[εἶναι]] Hdt.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> Pass., in aor1 and perf., to be [[subdued]], Hdt.; ἀκούειν σοῦ κατέστραμμαι am constrained to [[hear]], Aesch.:—but the perf. [[pass]]. is also used in [[sense]] of Mid., Hdt., Dem.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> to [[turn]] [[back]], [[bring]] [[back]], κατέστρεψε λόγους εἰς φιλανθρωπίαν Aeschin.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> to [[turn]] [[round]], [[bring]] to an end, Aesch.:—absol. to [[come]] to an end, die, Plut.<br /><b class="num">V.</b> to [[twist]] up: metaph., [[λέξις]] κατεστραμμένη a [[close]] periodic [[style]], opp. to a [[loose]] [[running]] [[style]] (εἰρομένἠ Arist.