A.“κενώσω” E.Ion447: aor. “ἐκένωσα” Id.Ba.730: pf. “κεκένωκα” App.BC 5.67:—Pass., fut. “κενωθήσομαι” Gal.4.709, “κενεώσομαι” Emp.16: aor. “ἐκενώθην” Th.2.51: pf. “κεκένωμαι” Hdt.4.123, Hp.Morb.Sacr.9: (κενός): —empty, “πᾶσαν ἠπείρου πλάκα” A.Pers.718 (troch.); “ναούς” E.Ionl.c.: c. gen., empty of a thing, “ἀνδρῶν τάνδε πόλιν κενῶσαι” A.Supp.660, cf. E.Rh.914 (lyr.); χέρας [δώρων] Id.Med.l.c.; “τινὰ τᾶς συοπλουτοσύνας” Cerc.4.13; opp. πληροῦν τινά τινος, Pl.l.c., cf. R.560d:—Pass., to be emptied, made or left empty, S.OT29; ἐς τὸ κενούμενον into the space continually left empty, Th.2.76; οἰκίαι πολλαὶ ἐκενώθησαν ib.51: c.gen., τούτων κενεώσεται . . αἰών will be left without them, Emp.l.c.; κεκενωμένου τοῦ τείχεος πάντων stripped of all things, Hdt.l.c.
2. make a place empty by leaving it, desert it, “βωμοῦ ἐσχάραν” E.Andr.1138; λόχμην Id.Ba.l.c.:—Pass., “κενωθεισῶν τῶν νεῶν” Th.8.57.
3. Medic., empty by depletion, opp. πληροῦν, Hp.Aph.2.51, cf. Aret.CA1.2, Gal.l.c.; τινα Phld.Lib.p.30 O.; carry off, “αἷμα” Luc.Ocyp.93; “ἐκ τοῦ σώματος χολήν” Gal.Nat.Fac.1.13:—Pass., τὰ κενούμενα evacuations, Id.6.78, Antyll. ap. Stob.4.37.27.
4. empty out, pour away, “φάρμακον” Iamb.Bab.7: metaph., πλοῦτον f.l. in Ph.1.119:—Pass., “τοῦ λαοῦ κενωθέντος” D.S.24.1; make away with, “θανάτου βάρος” Cypr. Fr.1.6.
6. in Pass., waste away, shrivel, Thphr.HP7.4.3, 9.14.3.
II. metaph., make empty, “ἑαυτόν” Ep.Phil.2.7; make void or of no effect, “καύχημα” 1 Ep.Cor.9.15; “ὑπάρξεις” Vett.Val.90.7:—Pass., to be or become so, Ep.Rom.4.14.
