A.draw, pull up, “σπυρίδα” Hdt.5.16, cf. 4.154; “βύβλον ἐκ τῶν ἑλέων” Id.2.92:—Pass., BGU1041.8 (iii A.D.).
2. draw, suck up greedily, “ὅταν αἷμ᾽ ἀνασπάσῃ κόνις” A.Eu.647; “ἀ. ὑγρόν” Hp.VM22; ἀ. ποτόν, τροφήν, Arist.HA495a26, PA661a19; ὕδωρ ἀ. draw water, Th.4.97.
4. tear up, pull down, “τὰ ἀγάλματα ἐκ τῶν βάθρων” Hdt.5.86; “τὴν σκηνήν” Id.7.119; “τὸ σταύρωμα” Th.6.100; “τύμβους” E.Med.1381, cf. Ba.949; “δένδρα” Arist.HA497b29,al.; “τὰς σανιδας τῆς γεφύρας” Plb.2.5.5; “πυλίδας” Id.5.39.4, etc.
5. metaph., ἀνασπᾶν λόγους, in S.Aj.302, draw forth words, utter wild, incoherent words; “ἀνασπῶντ᾽ αὐτοπρέμνοις τοῖς λόγοισιν” Ar.Ra.903:—the phrase may be expl. from Pl.Tht.180a (ὥσπερ ἐκ φαρέτρας ῥηματίσκια . . ἀνασπῶντες) and Men.429 (πόθεν . . τούτους ἀνεσπάκασιν οὗτοι τοὺς λόγους;); so “ἀ. γνωμίδιον” Ar.Fr. 49D.
6. τὰς ὀφρῦς ἀνασπᾶν pucker the eyebrows, and so put on a grave important air, “τὰς ὀφρῦς ἀνεσπακὼς ὥσπερ τι δεινὸν ἀγγελῶν” Id.Ach.1069, cf. Alex.16, D.19.314; “ἔβλεψε νᾶπυ καὶ τὰ μέτωπ᾽ ἀνέσπασεν” Ar.Eq.631; “μέχρι νεφέων τὴν ὀφρὺν ἀ.” Philem.174, cf. X.Smp. 3.10; “οἱ τὰς ὀφρῦς ἀνεσπασμένοι πρὸς τὸν κρόταφον” Arist.Phgn.812b27.
III. carry away from home, Luc.Tox.28 codd.