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δυσέξοδος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσέξοδος δυσέξοδον

Structure: δυσεξοδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hard to get out of

Examples

  • τὰ μὲν δὴ πλείω θεούσῃ συνέθει, τὰ δὲ ἄγαν δυσέξοδα καὶ ἐφείλκετο ὑπ’ αὐτῆσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 18 9:4)
  • χιὼν δ’ ἦν οὐκ ὀλίγη καὶ δυσέξοδα παντελῶσ, καὶ ἀπεῖχε τὸ οἰκίδιον τῆσ οἰκίασ πλέον ἢ στάδιον. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 6:8)

Synonyms

  1. hard to get out of

Related

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

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