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ἐκνίζω ,
A.wash out, purge away, “φόνον φόνῳ” E.IT1224; of crimes, Pl.Ep.352c :—Med., wash off from oneself, “οὐδέποτε ἐκνίψει τὰ πεπραγμένα σαυτῷ” D.18.140 ; “τὰ ἔθη γυναικῶν” Ph.1.365 ; “ἄγος φόνου” Paus. 3.17.7 ; “τὸ θνητόν” Plu.2.499c.
b. “ἐκνενιμμένοι τόποι” washed away, POxy.1469.6 (iii A.D.).
II. wash clean, purify, “ψυχήν” AP14.74 : metaph., restore to clarity, “τὴν αἴσθησιν” Aret. CA2.3 :—Pass., ἐκνενιμμένη, of a cup, Eub.56.5 ; “ἐκνιφθεὶς ὁ στόμαχος” Philum. ap. Aët.9.3.
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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