ἀποδειλιᾶν
From LSJ
οἴνῳ τὸν οἶνον ἐξελαύνειν → chase out the wine with wine, take a hair of the dog that bit you, try to drive out the wine with wine
Greek > English (Woodhouse Verbs Reversed)
(see also: ἀποδειλιάω) become demoralised, play the coward, shirk through cowardice
