Sense

1. to constrain, to be hard pressed or overpowered, suffer violence, forcibly made slaves, forced from one
2. to overpower by force, press hard, to do, violence, to lay violent hands on, to force, to force, [to be favourable]
3. to force
4. to use force, struggle, to force one's way, to increase in violence

Examples

• πρὸσ ἐκεῖνα δὲ ἤδη τρέψομαι, ἡ μὲν ἀρχὴ τῶν λόγων ἔπαινοσ ἦν Ἑλλάδοσ καὶ τῶν Ἀθήνησιν ἀνθρώπων, ὅτι φιλοσοφίᾳ καὶ πενίᾳ σύντροφοί εἰσιν καὶ οὔτε τῶν ἀστῶν οὔτε τῶν ξένων οὐδένα τέρπονται ὁρῶντεσ, ὃσ ἂν τρυφὴν εἰσάγειν εἰσ αὐτοὺσ βιάζηται, ἀλλὰ κἄν τισ ἀφίκηται παρ’ αὐτοὺσ οὕτω διακείμενοσ, ἠρέμα τε μεθαρμόττουσι καὶ παραπαιδαγωγοῦσι καὶ πρὸσ τὸ καθαρὸν τῆσ διαίτησ μεθιστᾶσιν. (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 12:3)
• ἐὰν δέ μ’ ἄκουσαν βιάζηται βίᾳ, ‐ ἐὰν δέ μ’ ἄκουσαν βιάζηται βίᾳ, ‐ κακῶσ παρέξω κοὐχὶ προσκινήσομαι. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Prologue 6:7)
• οὕτω καὶ ἡμῖν πρὸσ ἄνθρωπον ἀξιοῦντα καλὸν κἀγαθὸν λέγεσθαι ῥητέον, ἂν βιάζηται καὶ δυσωπῇ, μὴ πρέποντα ποιεῖν μηδ’ ἄξια τῆσ περὶ αὐτὸν εὐγενείασ τε καὶ ἀρετῆσ. (Plutarch, De vitioso pudore, section 16 8:1)
• μηδαμῶσ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, ἀλλὰ μάλιστα μὲν κωλύετε αὐτὸν ταῦτα ποιεῖν, ἂν δ’ ἄρα βιάζηται ὑμᾶσ καὶ λοιδορῆται, ἐνθυμεῖσθε ὅτι αὐτὸσ ἑαυτοῦ καταμαρτυρεῖ μὴ ἐξ ἐκείνου γεγενῆσθαι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 57:1)

Similar forms

• βιάζῃ (7)
• βιάζου (4)
• βιάζετο (4)
• βιάζεο (2)
• βιάζειν (1)
• βιάζετε (1)
• βιάζει (1)
• βιάζευ (1)
• βιάζεαι (1)
• βιάζοιτ (1)

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