προσεντείνω
From LSJ
Sunt verba voces quibus hunc lenire dolorem possis, magnam morbi deponere partem → Words will avail the wretched mind to ease and much abate the dismal black disease.
English (LSJ)
A strain still more: only in phrase π. πληγάς τινι proceed or continue to heap blows on one, D.21.12; π. ἑτέρας Plu.2.237d, cf. Luc.Tim.47:—Pass., become more tense, Herod.Med. in Rh.Mus.58.71.
German (Pape)
[Seite 759] (s. τείνω), noch dazu, noch mehr ausspannen; πληγάς τινι, noch dazu Schläge geben, Dem. 21, 12; auch ohne πληγάς, Plut. instit. lacon. p. 251.