ἐκπρεμνίζειν

From LSJ

Ὅστις γὰρ ἐν πολλοῖσιν ὡς ἐγὼ κακοῖς ζῇ, πῶς ὅδ' Οὐχὶ κατθανὼν κέρδος φέρει; → For one who lives amidst such evils as I do, how could it not be best to die?

Sophocles, Antigone, 464-5

Greek > English (Woodhouse Verbs Reversed)

(see also: ἐκπρεμνίζω) uproot, pull up by the roots