A.beat off, drive away, from a place or person, X.HG5.3.22, AP11.351 (Pall.); ὕπνον, νόσον, Porph.Abst.1.27,53:—more freq. in Med., beat off from oneself, “τὰς προσβολάς” Hdt.4.200, Th.2.4; “αὐτοὺς ἐπιόντας” Hdt.8.61, etc.; generally, repel, opp. ἐπισπᾶσθαι, S.E. M.7.400; shake off, Plot.4.7.10, Hierocl.in CA19p.461M.; “τινάς” Jul. Or.2.67b; “ἀλληλοφαγίας τοὺς ἀνθρώπους” Porph.Abst.1.23; refute an opponent, D.H.Comp.25; κατηγορίαν Chor.in Rev.Phil.1.245:— Pass., to be beaten off, of an assault, Th.4.107, etc.; “ἀποκρουσθέντες τῆς πείρας” Id.8.100, cf. X.HG6.4.5; ἀ. τῆς μηχανῆς dub. in Plb.21.28; “τῆς Ἰβηρίας” Plu.Sert.7, etc.
II. knock off, IG3.1417.12:—Pass., κοτυλίσκιον τὸ χεῖλος ἀποκεκρουμένον a cup with the lip knocked off, Ar.Ach.459.
III. Pass., also, to be thrown from horseback, X. Eq.Mag.3.14; to be stranded, “πρὸς χωρίον λιμνῶδες ἀπεκρούσθη” Gal. 2.221.