ἀπόλλυμι
I. "to destroy utterly, kill, slay", and of things, "to destroy, demolish, waste", Hom., attic; in pregnant sense, γᾶς ἐκ πατρίας ἀπ. "to drive" me "ruined" from my fatherland, Eur.; λόγοις ἀπ. τινά Soph.:— "to talk or bore" one "to death", Ar.
II. "to lose utterly", πατέρα, νόστιμον ἦμαρ Hom.
B. Mid. ἀπόλλυμαι, fut. -ολοῦμαι, ionic -ολέομαι with part. ἀπολεύμενος: aor2 -ωλόμην: perf. -όλωλα: plup. ἀπολώλειν:— "to perish utterly, die", Il.; c. acc. cogn., ἀπ. κακὸν μόρον, αἰπὺν ὄλεθρον Od.; "to be undone", id=Od.; ἀπόλωλας "you are done for, lost, ruined", Ar.; as an imprecation, κάκιστ᾽ ἀπολοίμην id=Ar.; in fut. part., ὦ κάκιστ᾽ ἀπολούμενε "oh destined to a miserable end!" i. e. "oh villain, scoundrel!" Ar.
II. "to be lost, slip away, vanish", of the water eluding Tantalus, Od.; of sleep, Il.