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ἐκκενόω , poet. ἐκκεινόω ,
A.empty out, leave desolate, “ἄστυ Σούσων ἐξεκείνωσεν” A.Pers.761, cf. LXXPs.136(137).7 ; clear out, “οἴκημα” Pl. Prt.315d ; “στωμυλίαν ἢ 'ξεκένωσε τὰς παλαίστρας” Ar.Ra.1070 ; ἐ. θυμὸν ἐς σχεδίαν γέροντος pour out one's spirit into Charon's boat, i.e. give up the ghost, Theoc.16.40 ; “χολῆς περισσὸν..ἐ. τῶν ἐγκάτων” App.Anth.3.158 ; ἐ. ἰούς to shoot all one's arrows, AP6.326 (Leon.):— Pass., to be left desolate, “στένει γαῖ᾽ Ἀσὶς ἐκκενουμένα” A.Pers.549(lyr.), cf. Th.330 (lyr.); “Ἀττικὴ τῆς τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀγέλης ἐκκενωθεῖσα” Philostr.VS1.16.1 ; “Μοιράων..μίτος ἐξεκενώθη” was exhausted, spun out, IG14.2002.
2. unsheath, “μάχαιραν” LXXEz.5.2.
3. clear away, “πέτρας” Sammelb.4368.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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