A.cause to retire; Act. only in Hsch. and in compd. ἀναχάζω (also “παραχάζω, προχάζω” Hsch.), and in Ep. redupl. aor. κέκα^δον, fut. κεκα^δήσω:—force to retire from, bereave or deprive of, “τοὺς . . θυμοῦ καὶ ψυχῆς κεκαδών” Il.11.334; “ἀριστῆας κεκαδήσει θυμοῦ καὶ ψυχῆς” Od.21.153,170.
B. Med., χάζομαι , Il.5.34, etc.; imper. χάζεο, χάζευ, ib.440, Call.Cer.54: Ep. impf. “χάζετο” Il.16.736, 3 du. “χαζέσθην” A.R.3.1320: fut. χάσομαι, Ep. “χάσσομαι” Il.13.153: aor. 1 ἐχα^σάμην, Ep. 3sg. χάσσατο ib.193, inf. “χάσσασθαι” 12.172; part. “χασσάμενος” 13.148, etc.: κεκάδοντο (for κεχάδοντο) 3pl. of redupl. aor. 2 κεκαδόμην, Il.4.497, 15.574:—give way, draw or shrink back, recoil, freq. in Il. (never in Od.), “χάζεο” Il.5.440; “ὁ δὲ χασσάμενος πελεμίχθη” 4.535; οὐδ᾽ ὅ γε “πάμπαν χάζετ᾽” 12.407; “ἂψ δ᾽ ἑτάρων εἰς ἔθνος ἐχάζετο” 3.32, al.; “αἰὲν ὀπίσσω χάζοντο” 5.702, cf. 18.160, A.R. l.c., Call. l.c., Nonn.D.48.618.
2. c. gen., draw back or retire from, “πυλάων χάσσασθαι” Il.12.172; “χάζοντο κελεύθου” 11.504; “χάζεσθε μάχης” 15.426; “μίνυνθα δὲ χάζετο δουρός” 11.539; “ὁ δὲ χάσσατ᾽ ὀπίσσω νεκρῶν” 13.193, cf. 17.357; less freq. with a Prep., “χ. ἐκ βελέων” 16.122; “χάσσονται ὑπ᾽ ἔγχεος” 13.153; οὐδὲ δὴν χάζετο φωτός nor in truth was he (or it, the stone) far from the man, i.e. nearly hit him, 16.736. Poet., and mainly Ep., exc. in the compds. ἀνα-, δια-χάζομαι (qq. vv.).—οὐχ ἅζομαι, οὐχ ἅζεται (not οὐ χάζ-), shd. be written in E.Or.1116, Alc. 326, A.Eu.389.
