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συγκόπ-τω , pf.
A.“-κέκοφα” Pl.Tht.169b, etc.:—chop up, X.Cyr.6.4.3; “χειμὼν . . συνέκοψε πάντα καὶ διέλυσε” Hdt.7.34:— Pass., to be broken up, IG7.303.53 (Oropus); “συγκεκομμένα μέρη τοῦ σώματος” BGU1857.10 (i B.C.): metaph., “πολλαὶ φιλίαι συνεκόπησαν” Luc.Cal.1.
2. thrash soundly, τινας Lys.3.16, cf. Pl. l.c., X.Smp.8.6, Metag.9, D.21.57; “ξύλοις τὰς κεφαλάς” Duris 67J.; of cocks fighting, v.l. in Aesop.22 (i p.68 Chambry):—Pass., “συγκεκομμένος” E.Cyc.228, cf. X.Cyr.2.3.20; “συγκεκόφθαι” Ar.Nu.1426, etc.; “συγκοπῆναι” Hyp.Fr.272a Jensen.
3. Med., beat oneself, lament, Sch.A.Ch.23.
II. cut short a sound or word (v. “συγκοπή” 1.2, 11), D.H.Comp.16, EM299.28, etc.:—Pass., “τὸ -κεκόφθαι” Phld.Po.Herc. 1676.9.
III. wear out, “τὸν μὲν ἀποπνίξας τάχιστα, τοῦ δὲ συγκόψας τὴν δύναμιν” Gal.15.504:—Pass., esp. in pf., to be worn out, suffer from συγκοπή (111), Thphr.Lass.2; “συγκεκομμένοι τὰ πνεύματα” D.H.5.44; “συγκεκ. ὑπὸ τῶν ἀγώνων” Plu.Comp.Cim.Luc.3, cf. Gal.9.291, 10.846, al.
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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