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ἀναιρέω

Pronunciation: /a.nai̯.ré.ɔː/

“ἀναιρέω” is an Ancient Greek word. Its 17 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to take up
  2. to take up and carry off, bear away
  3. to take up bodies for burial
  4. to take away, make away with, destroy, kill
  5. to abolish, annul, cancel
  6. to destroy (an argument), answer or confute it completely
  7. to appoint, ordain
  8. to answer, give a response
  9. to take up for oneself, take up
  10. to take up and carry off, snatch away
  11. to take up dead bodies for burial
  12. to take up in one's arms
  13. to conceive in the womb
  14. to take up money at interest
  15. to take upon oneself, undertake
  16. to accept as one's own
  17. to take back to oneself, undo what one has done, cancel

Etymology

From ᾰ̓νᾰ- (ănă-, “up”) + αἱρέω (hairéō, “to take, grasp”).

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