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ὑβρίζω , Od.18.381, etc., Dor. ὑα^λ-ίσδω Theoc. 14.9: fut. Att.
A.“-ιῶ” D. 21.221, (ἐν-) prob. in Ar.Th.720 (-ίσεις cod. R): aor. “ὕβρισα” Hdt. 6.87, S.Aj.560, etc.: pf. “ὕβρικα” Ar.Lys.400, D.21.128: plpf. “ὑβρίκειν” Id.3.14:—Med., fut. “ὑβριοῦμαι” Ar.Ec.666 (anap.):—Pass., fut. “ὑβρισθήσομαι” D.21.222: aor. “ὑβρίσθην” S.Aj.367, Pl.Lg.885a: pf. “ὕβρισμαι” E.Cyc.665, etc.: (ὕβρις):—wax wanton, run riot, in the use of superior strength or power, or in sensual indulgence, “ὑβρίζοντες ὑπερφιάλως δοκέουσι δαίνυσθαι κατὰ δῶμα” Od.1.227; “ὑβρίζοντες ἀτάσθαλα μηχανόωνται” 3.207, 17.588; “ἀλλὰ μάλ᾽ ὑβρίζεις” 18.381; “ὁππότ᾽ ἀνὴρ ἄδικος καὶ ἀτάσθαλος . . ὑβρίζῃ πλούτῳ κεκορημένος” Thgn. 751; “ἐνταῦθα νῦν ὕβριζε” A.Pr.82, cf. S.Ant.480, etc.; esp. of lust, X.Mem.2.1.30; opp. σωφρονεῖν, Id.Cyr.8.1.30, Antipho 4.4.2.
2. of over-fed asses, neigh or bray and prance about, “ὑβρίζοντες οἱ ὄνοι ἐτάρασσον τὴν ἵππον” Hdt.4.129; of horses, X.Cyr.7.5.62; of elephants, Ael.NA10.10.
3. of plants, run riot, grow rank and luxuriant, Thphr.HP2.7.6, CP3.15.4.
4. metaph., of a river that swept away and drowned a horse, Hdt.1.189; so γῆ ὕβριστο had been carried away by river-floods, Emp.(?)154.
II. trans., ὑ. τινά treat him despitefully, outrage, insult, maltreat, ἡμέας ὑβρίζοντες ἀτάσθαλα μηχανόωντο (v. infr. 2) Il.11.695; “ὑ. τοὺς ὑβρίζοντας χρεών” A.Pr.970; “ὑ. γυναῖκα τὴν ἑαυτοῦ” And.4.15; με, ἐμέ, S.Ant. 840 (lyr.), Lys.1.4; “τὰς νήσους” Isoc.8.99: more freq. (esp. in Prose) ὑ. εἴς τινα(s) commit an outrage upon or towards him (them), E.Ph. 620 (troch.), Hipp.1073, Ar.Pl.899; ὑ. εἰς (dub. l.) “τοὺς θεούς” Id.Nu. 1506; “εἰς σὲ καὶ τὴν σὴν γυναῖκα” Lys.1.16; “εἰς τὰς πατρίδας” Isoc.4.111; “εἰς ταύτην τὴν παροιμίαν” Pl.Smp.174b (acc. to Luc.Sol.10, ὑ. τινά was to do one a personal injury, ὑ, εἴς τινα to injure that which belongs to one; but the distinction was not observed): also “ὑ. ἐν κακοῖσιν” A.Ag.1612, cf. S.Aj.1151.
2. freq. c. acc. cogn., “ὑ. ὕβριν” A.Supp.880 (lyr.); “ὕβρεις” E.Ba.247; “ὕβριν ἐς ἡμᾶς ὑ.” Id.IA 961, cf. Heracl.18; “ὕ. ὑβρίζεις ἐπὶ θανοῦσι τοῖς ἐμοῖς” Id.HF708; “ὕβρεις ἃς κατὰ τὴν ἀγορὰν ὕβριζεν” D.22.68: with neut. Adj., ὑ. τάδε commit these outrages, Hdt.3.118; “ὑ. τἄλλα” Ar.Lys.400; “ὅσα περὶ θεοὺς ὑ. τις” Pl.Lg.885b, cf. 761e: and with other Nouns, “τῶν ἀδικημάτων . . , τῶν ἐς Ἀθηναίους ὕβρισαν” Hdt.6.87 (so prob. θεοὶ τεισαίατο λώβην, ἣν οἵδ᾽ ὑβρίζοντες ἀτάσθαλα μηχανόωνται (v. supr. 11.1) Od. 20.170): and c. dupl. acc., “τοιαῦτα ὑ. τινά” S.El.613; “τίνος δέ σ᾽ οὕνεχ᾽ ὕβρισ᾽ Αἴγισθος τάδε;” E.El.266, cf. Pl.Smp.222a, X.An.6.4.2, Cyr.5.2.28:—Pass., “ὕβριν ὑβρισθείς” E.Ba.1297, cf. D.23.121; “τάλαιν᾽ ἐγὼ τῆς ὕβρεος ἧς ὑβρίζομαι” Ar.Pl.1044; “ὧν δ᾽ εἰς τὸ σῶμα ὑβρίσθαι φημί” D.21.25.
3. in legal sense, commit a physical outrage on one (cf. “ὕβρις” 11.2,3), Lys.14.26, 24.18,Fr.44, D.21.6 (Pass.), etc.; so later, “ἐμὲ δέ, ἐὰν δύνῃ, καὶ ὕβριζε καὶ ἄπαγε” PCair.Zen.454.9 (iii B. C.), cf. PEnteux.79.7, al. (iii B. C.); “γυναῖκες καὶ παῖδες ὑβρίζονται” Th.8.74; “ὑβρισθῆναι βίᾳ” Pl.Lg.874c; τὰς γνάθους ὑβρισμένη mauled on the cheeks, Ar.Th.903; ὑβριζομένους ἀποθανεῖν to die of ill-treatment, X. An.3.1.13; ὑβρίσθαι to be mutilated, of eunuchs, Id.Cyr.5.4.35: of acts, “τὰ ὑβρισμένα” outrages, Lys.3.7.
4. pf. part. Pass., of things, arrogant, ostentatious, “σημεῖ᾽ ἔχων ὑβρισμένα” E.Ph.1112; “στολὴ οὐδέν τι ὑβρισμένη” X.Cyr.2.4.5.
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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