ἀνίημι
Etym. For quantities, ἀνι epic, ἀνι_- attic; but Hom. has ἀνι_ει, ἀνι_έμενος.
Etym. The forms ἀνιεῖς, -εῖ are formed as if they were from ἀνιέω.
Etym. The Homeric forms in ἀνεσ- are created as if from ἀν-έζω.
Etym. The Ionic form ἀνέωνται is formed as if from ἀν-εόω.
I. "to send up or forth", Hom., etc.; of the earth, "to make spring up", Hhymn.; of females, "to produce", Soph.:— Pass. "to be sent up, produced", Aesch., etc.; "to send up" from the grave or nether world, id=Aesch., etc.
II. "to send back, put back, open", Hom., Eur.
III. "to let go, leave", Hom., etc.; c. gen. rei, δεσμῶν ἀνίει "loosed" them "from" bonds, Od.: "to let go unpunished", Xen.
2. ἀν. τινί "to let loose at" one, ἀν. κύνας, Lat. canes immittere, Xen.; hence, ἄφρονα τοῦτον ἀνέντες Il.: c. inf. "to set on or urge" to do a thing, Hom.
3. ἀν. τινὰ πρός τι "to let go for" any purpose, Hdt.; ἀν. τινὰ μανίας "to set free from" madness, Eur.
4. "to let, allow" one to do a thing, c. acc. et inf., Hdt., etc.: —so, ἀν. κόμην "to let" it hang, "loosen", Eur.
5. Mid., c. acc., κόλπον ἀνιεμένη "baring her" breast, Il.; αἶγας ἀνιέμενοι "flaying" goats, Od.
6. "to let go free, leave untilled", of ground dedicated to a god, Thuc.:—Pass. "to devote oneself, give oneself up", Hdt.; of animals dedicated to a god, which "are let range at large", id=Hdt.; esp. in perf. pass. part. ἀνειμένος, Soph., etc.
7. "to slacken, relax, let down, unstring", Hdt., Plat.:—then, "to remit, neglect, give up", Soph., Thuc., etc.:—Pass. "to be treated remissly", Thuc.
8. so intr. in Act. "to slacken, abate", of the wind, Soph., etc.; οὐδὲν ἀνιέναι not "to give way" at all, Xen.:—c. part. "to give up or cease" doing, ὕων οὐκ ἀνίει [ὁ θεός] Hdt.:—c. gen. "to cease from" a thing, Eur., Thuc.