νοσφίζομαι
Alt. νοσφίζομαι,
I. "to turn one's back upon" a person, "to turn away, shrink back", Hom.
2. "to turn away from" a person, c. gen., Od.
3. c. acc. "to forsake, abandon", Hom., Soph.
II. after Hom., in Act., attic fut. νοσφιῶ: aor1 ἐνόσφισα: — "to set apart or aloof, to separate, remove", Eur.:—metaph., ν. τινὰ βίου "to separate" him from life, i. e. kill him, Soph.; so, ν. τινά alone, Aesch.
2. "to deprive, rob", τινά τι one "of" a thing, Pind.; also, τινά τινος Aesch., Eur.
3. Mid. "to put aside for oneself, to appropriate, purloin", Xen.:— ν. ἀπὸ τῆς τιμῆς "to appropriate part of" the price, NTest.
b. but the Mid. is also just like the Act., "to deprive, rob", Eur.