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|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">I.</b> to cut the [[hair]] [[short]], [[shear]], [[clip]], Il., Hdt., Eur.:— Mid. to cut off one's [[hair]] or [[have]] it cut off, as in [[deep]] [[mourning]], Hom., Eur., etc.:—Pass., βοστρύχους κεκαρμένος having one's locks cut off, Eur.; [[κεκάρθαι]] τὰς κεφαλάς to [[have]] [[their]] heads [[shorn]], in [[sign]] of [[mourning]], Hdt.: of the [[hair]], to be cut off, Pind.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> to cut or hew out, Il.; ὕλην Soph.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> to [[ravage]] a [[country]], by [[cutting]] down the crops and [[fruit]]-trees, Hdt., Thuc.:—Pass., of a [[country]], to be [[ravaged]], Thuc.:—Mid., [[Ἄρης]] πλάκα κερσάμενος having had the [[plain]] swept [[clean]] (by [[destroying]] the men), Aesch.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> [[generally]], to [[destroy]], and so,<br /><b class="num">1.</b> to [[tear]], eat [[greedily]], Lat. depasci, of beasts, Hom.; ἔκειρε πολύκερων φόνον, i. e. he slaughtered [[many]] a [[horned]] [[beast]], Soph.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> of the suitors, to [[consume]], [[waste]] one's [[substance]], Od.