Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.“ἔπνι_γον” Ar.Nu.1376: fut. πνίξω （ἀπο-) Pl.Com.198, Antiph.171; Dor. 2pl. fut. “πνιξεῖσθε” Epich.155: aor. ἔπνιξα, imper. πνῖξον, Cratin.27, Hdt.2.92, Batr.158:—Pass., fut. “πνι^γήσομαι” Gal.Nat.Fac.1.17, (ἀπο-) Ar.Nu.1504, Hp.Morb.3.16; also “ἀπο-πεπνίξομαι” Eun.VSp.463 B.: aor. ἐπνίχθην （ἀπ-) Aret.SA1.7; but ἐπνίγην [ι^] Batr.148, Aret.SD 1.11, (ἀπ-) Pherecr.159, Pl.Grg.512a, D.32.6, etc.: pf. πέπνιγμαι, v. infr.11.—The simple verb is less freq. than the compd. ἀποπνίγω:— choke, throttle, strangle, Sophr.l.c., etc.; of a doctor, “πνίγων . . πικρότατα πόματα διδούς” Pl.Grg.522a; ἂν ὕλη πνίγῃ [τὸν σῖτον] X.Oec.17.14: prov., “ὅταν τὸ ὕδωρ πνίγῃ, τί δεῖ ἐπιπίνειν;” Arist.EN1146a35:—Pass., to be choked, stifled, “ἐπνιγόμην τὰ σπλάγχνα” Ar.Nu.1036; “αἱ ὑστερικῶς πνιγόμεναι” Antyll. ap. Orib.10.19.1.

2. impers. πνίγει, of great heat, it is stifling, Arist.Pr.941b4, 944a7.

3. metaph., vex, torment, “ἕνα χαλκοῦν ἀποβαλὼν αὑτὸν π.” Phld.Ir.p.37 W.; ὃ δὲ μάλιστά με πνίγει v.l. in Luc.Prom.17; oppress by exactions, 'squeeze', Jul. Mis.368c.

II. cook in a close-covered vessel, bake, stew, Hdt.2.92; “δικίδιον . . ἐν λοπάδι πεπνιγμένον” Ar.V.511; “πεπνιγμένος” Metag.6. 9.

III. drown (cf. “πνῖξις” 11), in Pass., X.An.5.7.25: metaph., of plants, “τὰ φυτὰ . . τοῖς πολλοῖς [ὕδασι] πνίγεται” Plu.2.9b.