pierce

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

verb transitive

bare: P. and V. τετραίνειν, τρυπᾶν (Sophocles, Fragment), Ar. διατετραίνεσθαι.

wound: P. and V. τιτρώσκειν, τραυματίζειν; see wound.

prick: P. and V. κεντεῖν, V. χρίειν.

go through: V. διαπερᾶν, διέρχεσθαι (acc. or gen.); of an arrow, V. διαρροιζεῖν (gen.) (Sophocles, Trachiniae 558).

enter: P. and V. εἰσέρχεσθαι (εἰς, acc., or acc. alone in V.), εἰσδύεσθαι (εἰς, acc., or acc. alone in V.).

break: P. and V. ῥηγνύναι (in P. usually compounded), διαρρηγνύναι.

strike: P. and V. βάλλειν; see strike.

piercing his ankles through with iron points: V. σφυρῶν σιδηρᾶ κέντρα διαπείρας μέσον (Euripides, Phoenissae 26).

Met., see through: P. and V. γιγνώσκειν, μανθάνειν, αἰσθάνεσθαι (acc. or gen.).

sting, pain: P. and V. λυπεῖν, δάκνειν.

pierced with: V. πεπληγμένος (dat.), P. and V. ἐκπεπληγμένος (dat.), ἐκπλαγείς (dat.).