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παρα-φθείρω ,
A.destroy, corrupt, spoil, “τὴν ἀρχαίαν μουσικήν” Artemo 11 ; “τὸν λόγον” A.D.Synt.82.20 ; “τὴν ἀγορὰν τῶν ὠνίων” SIG799.22 (Cyzicus, i A.D.).
2. debase, νόμισμα, φιλοσοφίαν, Philostr.VA2.29.
3. alter, corrupt, τὴν ἄρχουσαν (sc. συλλαβήν) St.Byz.s.v. Μέγαρα, cf. Eust.1532.1.
4. lose, “τὸ ε_” A.D.Synt.134.8 ; τὴν εὐθεῖαν lose its nominative force (of τύ), ib.15.13.
II. Pass., with pf. παρέφθορα : aor. 2 παρεφθάρην :—to be destroyed or spoilt, “οἱ παρεφθαρμένοι στάχυες” Ph.2.57 ; “τῆς γῆς παρεφθορυίας” Philostr. Her.10.4 ; “παρεφθορὸς ὕδωρ” Id.Im.2.5 ; παρεφθορὼς τὸ λογιστικόν demented, A.D. Synt.292.4 ; of character, “ὑπό τινος -εφθορέναι” Philostr.VS1.16.2.
2. to be lost, “αἱ φωναὶ παραφθαρεῖσαι” A.D.Adv.164.26 (but παραφθαρεὶς τὴν φωνήν having lost one's voice, Plu.2.848b).
3. become obsolete, “τὰ τῆστοιαύτης χρήσεως παρεφθάρη” A.D.Synt.139.25 ; περὶ παρεφθορυίας λέξεως, title of work by Didymus, Ath.9.368b ; fall into desuetude, “νόμος ἄρτι παρεφθάρη” Lyd. Mag.2.15.
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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