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ἀπαλλάσσω The middle future ἀπαλλάξομαι has a passive sense.

A.Act.
I.to set free, release, deliver a person from a thing, τινά τινος Hdt., attic
2.to put away or remove a thing from a person, τί τινος Eur., etc.
3.c. acc. only, to put away, remove, dismiss, τι or τινα id=Eur., Thuc., etc.: to destroy, ἑαυτόν Plut.
II.intr. to get off, come off, end so and so, οὐκ ὡς ἤθελε Hdt.; κακῶς ἀπ. Plat.; χαίρων Hdt.:—c. gen. to depart from, βίου Eur.
B.Pass. and Mid. to be set free or released from a thing, get rid of it, c. gen., Hdt., attic
2.to get off, καλῶς Eur.; ἀζήμιος Ar.
3.absol. to be acquitted, Dem.
II.to remove, depart from, ἐκ χώρης Hdt., etc.; γῆς Eur.
2.ἀπαλλάσσεσθαι τοῦ βίου to depart from life, id=Eur.; and without τοῦ βίου, to depart, die, id=Eur., Thuc., etc.
3.ἀπ. λέχους to be divorced, Eur.
4.ἀπ. τοῦ διδασκάλου to leave school, Plat.
5.ἀπ. ἐκ παίδων to become a man, Aeschin.
6.πολλὸν ἀπηλλαγμένος τινός far inferior to him, Hdt.
III.to leave off or cease from τῶν μακρῶν λόγων Soph.; σκωμμάτων Ar.:—absol. to have done, give over, cease, Soph., Plat.:—c. part., εἰπὼν ἀπαλλάγηθι speak and be done with it, Plat.; also in part. with a Verb, οὐκοῦν ἀπαλλαχθεὶς ἄπει; have done and begone, Soph.
2.to depart from enmity, i. e. to be reconciled, Plat.

Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.

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