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ὑπτι-όω , only in Pass.,
A.to be turned on one's back, “ὑπτιωθέντος [τοῦ βρέφους]” Sor.1.100, cf. 106; to be turned downside up, to be upset, “ὑπτιοῦτο σκάφη νεῶν” A.Pers.418; of leaves, to be laid back, Dsc.4.88.
2. of land, slope gently upwards, “λόφος . . ὑπτιούμενος ἐπὶ τὴν κορυφὴν ἄκραν” J.AJ15.11.3.
3. metaph. of the appetite (cf. “ὑπτιασμός” 11), to be sluggish, “ὄρεξιν . . ὑπτιωμένην ἀνεγεῖραι” Gal.14.302; “-οῦσθαι τὸν στόμαχον” Archig. ap. Gal.13.140, cf. Sor.1.50.
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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