A.press or squeeze together, grasp closely, “τὰς τρίχας” Pl.Phd.89b; “τι ταῖς Χερσί” Id.Sph.247c; “ς. τὸ στόμα” Ephipp.6.3, cf. Plu.2.58od (prob.); “ς. Χείλεα Χείλεσι” AP5.127 (Marc. Arg.); “τὸ ἔλαττον ς. τὸ πλέον” Arist.Pr.929b39:—Pass., to be squeezed up, opp. διέλκεσθαι, X.Mem.3.10.7; “ς. τὰς ἀκοάς” Arist.Pr.904a21; ἡ κοιλία ς. ταῖς πλευραῖς ib.964b3; συμπιασθῆναι, of the body, to be pinched in, grow lean, Hp.Epid.7.68 (but, to be fattened up, from συμπιαίνω, acc. to Littré): aor. Pass. subj. 3pl. “συμπιεχθῶσιν αἱ δίοδοι” Id.Loc.Hom.9; of an army, “συνεπιέζετο τὰ μέσα” D.C.36.49.
συμπι^-έζω (for -πιάζω v. infr.),
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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