ἀπολείπω
I. "to leave over or behind", of meats not wholly eaten, Od.:—Mid. "to leave behind one", after death, Hdt.
2. "to leave hold of, lose", βίον Soph.; also, βίοτος ἀπολείπει τινά id=Soph.
3. "to leave behind", as in the race, "to distance", and generally "to surpass", Xen.; v. infr.
II. "to leave quite, forsake, abandon", of places one ought to defend, Il., Hdt., etc.: "to leave" one "in the lurch", Hdt., Ar.
2. of things, "to leave alone, leave undone or unsaid", Hdt., attic
III. "to leave open, leave a space", Hdt., Xen.
IV. intr. "to fail, to be wanting", Od.; of rivers, "to fall, sink", Hdt.; of flowers, "to begin to wither", Xen.;—also, like ἀπειπεῖν, "to fail, flag, lose heart", Hdt., Xen.
2. "to be wanting of or in" a thing, c. gen., Thuc.; of measures, ἀπὸ τεσσέρων πήχεων ἀπ. τρεῖς δακτύλους "wanting" 3 fingers "of" 4 cubits, Hdt.: c. inf., ὀλίγον ἀπέλιπον ἀπικέσθαι "wanted" but little of coming, id=Hdt.
3. c. part. "to leave off" doing, Plat.
4. "to depart from", ἐκ τῶν Συρακουσῶν Thuc., Plat.
B. Pass. "to be left behind, stay behind", Thuc., Xen.
2. "to be distanced by, inferior to", τινος Dem.
II. "to be parted from, be absent or far from", c. gen., Hdt.: "to be deprived of", τάφου Soph.; φρενῶν Eur.
2. "to be wanting in, fall short of", παιδείας Dem.; ἀπολειφθεὶς ἡμῶν "without" our "cognisance", id=Dem.; ἀπ. φρενῶν "to be bereft of", Eur.