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A. reduce to a skeleton, ἑαυτούς Plu. 2.7d; τὸ σῶμα Sch.Ar. Ra. 153:—Pass., to be wasted away, 'desiccated,' μὴ περιιδεῖν τὴν φύσιν ‐ευθεῖσαν Isoc. 15.268, cf. Ph. 1.198, al., Onos. 1.5 (Act.), D.L. 8.41: metaph., τὰ φυσικὰ ἔργα ταῖς τεχνολογίαις ‐ευόμενα Longin. 2.1.