Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.“-κέκαρμαι” E.Hec.910:—clip, cut off, properly of hair, mostly in Med., “ξανθὴν ἀπεικείρατο χαίτην” Il.23.141; ἀποκείρασθαι τὰς κεφαλάς to have their hair shorn close, Hdt.6.21:abs., “ἀποκείρασθαι” cut off one's hair, Ar. Nu.836; esp. in token of mourning, Is.4.7:—in Act., X.Eq.5.8, Thphr.Char.21.3, Luc.Pisc.46; tear out, “ἧπαρ” Id.Prom.2:—Pass., δὶς ἀποκαρέντα πρόβατα twice shorn or clipped, D.S.1.36; ἀποκεκαρμένος ἐν χρῷ, ἀ. σκάφιον, of peculiar fashions of hair-cutting, Ar.Th. 838, Luc.DMeretr.5.3: c. acc., ἀπὸ στεφάναν κέκαρσαι πύργων thou hast been shorn of thy crown of towers, E.Hec.910; but “ἀ. τινὰ τῶν γενείων” Philostr.VA7.34.

2. metaph., cheat, “τοὺς παχεῖς” Luc. Alex.6.

II. generally, cut through, sever, “ἀπὸ δ᾽ ἄμφω κέρσε τένοντε” Il.10.456; “ἀπὸ δὲ φλέβα πᾶσαν ἔκερσεν” 13.546.

III. metaph., cut off, slay, “ἀποκείρεται σὸν ἄνθος πόλεως” E.HF875 (lyr.); “ἀπέκειρε τὴν ἀκμὴν τῆς Σπάρτης” Demad.12.