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ἀποκωλ-ύω , fut. -ύσω [υ_],
A.hinder or prevent from a thing, or its use, “τινὰ τῆς ὁδοῦ” X.An.3.3.3; “ἀπό τινος” LXX Ec.2.10: c. inf., prevent from doing, E.Med.1411, Pl.Tht.150c, al.; “ἀ. τοῦ ποιεῖν” X.Hier.8.1; “ἀ. μὴ ἐλθεῖν” Id.An.6.4.24.
II. c. acc. only, keep off, hinder, Orac. ap. Hdt.1.66, cf. Th.3.28.
III. abs., stop the way, Id.1.72: impers., οὐδὲν ἀποκωλύει there is nothing to prevent it, Pl.R.372e, al.
IV. shut up, “τέκνα εἰς οἶκον” LXX 1 Ki.6.10.
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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    • Euripides, Medea, 1411
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    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 3.3.3
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