[Used] with an accusative. [Meaning he/she/it] retracts, repulses.1
[The infinitive] a)naxaiti/zein: Sophocles [sc. uses it to mean] to balk and to resist.2
For this verb, used properly of horses, see also alpha 2360.
1Same or similar glossing in other lexica; references at Photius alpha1723-1724 Theodoridis. The headword must be quoted from somewhere, and scholars assume that it occurs in Sophocles, named below.↩