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ἐκστρέφω ,
A.turn out of, βόθρου τ᾽ ἐξέστρεψε [δένδρον] rooted up a tree from the trench it stood in, Il.17.58.
II. turn inside out, “τὰ βλέφαρα” Ar.Pl.721 : metaph., change or alter entirely, “τοὺς τρόπους” Id.Nu.88 ; τοὺς ἡμετέρους Ἱππέας ib.554 :—Pass., ποσὶν ἐξεστραμμένοις πορευόμενοι with feet turned outwards, Arist.Phgn.813a14 ; to be distorted, Gal.7.27.
2. metaph. in pf. part. Pass., γενεὰ ἐξεστραμμένη perverse generation, LXXDe.32.20.
3. transmute base metal, Zos. Alch.p.195B.
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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