Sense

1. to stretch, strain, stretch out, to string, having strung his, to push, tight, he reins in, having aimed, filled out, to run at full stretch
2. to strain, make more intense, strained
3. to stretch out, lay along, lay, to lay, stretch, at his length, to lie stretched out, to extend, stretched away

Examples

• εἰς τὸν αὐτὸν ὅτε τὰς παλάμας ἐξέτεινε τροπούμενος τὸν Ἀμαλήκ Σταυροφανῶς τανύεις παλάμας τίνος εἵνεκα, Μωσῆ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 1, chapter 601)
• "ὦ φίλοι, οὐ μὲν ἐγὼ τανύω, λαβέτω δὲ καὶ ἄλλος. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 21 16:1)
• ὡς δ ὅτ ἀνὴρ ταύροιο βοὸς μεγάλοιο βοείην λαοῖσιν δώῃ τανύειν μεθύουσαν ἀλοιφῇ: (Homer, Iliad, Book 17 39:3)

Similar forms

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• τάνυσιν (2)
• τάνυσσε (2)
• τάνυσεν (2)
• Τανὺ (1)
• τάνυται (1)
• τανύειν (1)
• τανύσει (1)
• τανύων (1)
• τανύσαι (1)
• τάνυεν (1)
• τανύσῃ (1)
• τάνυ (1)
• τάνυσε (1)
• τανύω (1)
• τὰνῦν (1)
• τανύεις? (1)

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