Etym.: It can hardly be a compd. of au)= e)ru/w, for au)= is never elsewh. used in the local sense of back: perh. for a)neru/w, i. e. a)nveru/w.

Sense

1. to draw back or backwards, to draw, to draw, back

Similar forms

• αὐέρυσαν (2)
• αὐερύοντα (1)
• αὐέρυον (1)
• αὐερύσαι (1)
• αὐερύειν (1)
• αὐερύων (1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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