ἀφανίζω
Etym. ἀφανής
I. "to make unseen, hide from sight", Xen., Thuc., etc.
2. "to do away with, remove", ἄχος Soph.; ἀφ. τινὰ πόλεος "to carry off" one "from" the city, Eur.; ἀφ. αὑτὸν εἰς τὸν νεών "to disappear" into the temple, Ar.:—of state criminals, "to remove from sight, make away with", Hdt., Xen.: Pass. "to be concealed or suppressed", Thuc.
3. "to destroy utterly, rase" to the ground, "erase" writing, id=Thuc., Dem.: "to obliterate" traces, Xen.
4. "to obliterate, tarnish" one's good name, Thuc., Plat.:—but in good sense, ἀφ. ἀγαθῶι κακόν "to wipe out" ill deeds by good, Thuc.; δύσκλειαν id=Thuc.
5. "to disfigure", ἀφ. τὰ πρόσωπα, of "hypocritical" sadness, NTest.
6. "to make away with" property, Aeschin., Dem.
II. Pass. "to become unseen, to disappear", Hdt., Soph.; of persons buried by a sand-storm, Hdt.; or, lost at sea, Thuc., Xen.