(verb) : ē-līdo, si, sum, 3, laedo.
* To knock, strike, or dash out, to tear out, to force out, squeeze out.
* Lit.: aurigam e curru,Cic. Rep. 2, 41: oculos,Plaut. Rud. 3, 2, 45; Verg. A. 8, 261: ignem velut e silice,Plin. 11, 37, 86, § 214; cf.: flammas ex sese,id. 18, 35, 84, § 358: ignes nubibus,Ov. M. 6, 696: aërem lituis,Luc. 7, 476: partum,i. e. to produce abortion,Cels. 1, 7; Plin. 25, 3, 7, § 25: litteras,to strike out by syncope, to elide,Gell. 5, 12, 5: vina praelis,i. e. to press out,Prop. 4 (5), 6, 73. cf. herbam,Ov. F. 4, 371: corpora equorum eodem elisa, i. e. ad litus ejecta,Tac. A. 2, 24.
* To break or dash to pieces, to shatter, to crush to death.
* Lit.: talos alicui,Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 12: tuum caput,id. Poen. 2, 46; Liv. 21, 45: fauces,to strangle,Ov. M. 12, 142: naves, * Caes. B. C. 3, 27, 2: aliquem stipite,Curt. 9, 7 fin.: draconem pondere,Plin. 8, 11, 11, § 32: geminos angues (Hercules),i. e. to strangle,Verg. A. 8, 289; cf. infantes,Flor. 3, 3, 17 al.
* Trop., to break down, destroy: (poetae) nervos omnes virtutis elidunt,Cic. Tusc. 2, 11 fin.; cf.: aegritudine elidi,id. ib. 5, 6, 16: prius pactum per posterius,i. e. to abrogate,Dig. 2, 14, 27.

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