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I. "to cut" the hair "short, shear, clip", Il., Hdt., Eur.:— Mid. "to cut off one's" hair or "have" it "cut off", as in deep mourning, Hom., Eur., etc.:—Pass., βοστρύχους κεκαρμένος "having one's" locks "cut off", Eur.; κεκάρθαι τὰς κεφαλάς "to have" their heads "shorn", in sign of mourning, Hdt.: of the hair, "to be cut off", Pind.
II. "to cut or hew out", Il.; ὕλην Soph.
III. "to ravage" a country, "by cutting down" the crops and fruit-trees, Hdt., Thuc.:—Pass., of a country, "to be ravaged", Thuc.:—Mid., Ἄρης πλάκα κερσάμενος "having had" the plain "swept clean" (by destroying the men), Aesch.
IV. generally, "to destroy", and so,
1. "to tear, eat greedily", Lat. depasci, of beasts, Hom.; ἔκειρε πολύκερων φόνον, i. e. he slaughtered many a horned beast, Soph.
2. of the suitors, "to consume, waste" one's substance, Od.