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ἐκχωρ-έω ,
A.depart, “ἐκ χώρας” SIG679.53; leave a country, emigrate, Hdt.1.56, Hecat.30J.; withdraw, “ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας” PAmh.2.30.44(ii B.C.), etc.: metaph., “ἐ. ἐκ τοῦ ζῆν” Plb.2.21.2: so abs., Id.7.2.1.
2. slip out of, “ἀστράγαλος ἐξεχώρησε ἐκ τῶν ἄρθρων” Hdt.3.129.
3. give way, retire, E.IA367, D.41.5; “τῶν ὑπαίθρων” Plb.1.15.7; “τῶν ὑπαρχόντων” Id.31.28.3; “χειμῶνες ἐκχωροῦσιν εὐκάρπῳ θέρει” S.Aj.671; ἐ. τινί τινος give way to a person in a thing, Hp.Jusj.; “τινὶ περί τινος” Plb. 21.20.1.
4. impers. of a motion of the bowels, Hp.Epid.5.33.
II. trans., give up, cede, “τινί τι” IG12(3).324.15 (Thera), PEleph.15.2 (iii B.C.), Sammelb.4414.8, etc.; τῷ δαίμονί τι Vett. Val. 156.4:—Pass., CIG4268 (Xanthus).
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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