ἀμηχανέω (amechaneo)

ἀμηχανέω means “to be at a loss, be helpless”.

Ancient Greek word, found 101 times in the texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.410: ἥρως Αἴσονος υἱὸς ἀμηχανέων κακότητι·

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.48.5: … ας καὶ ἐν περιπολίοις ἅμα ἀναλίσκοντας καὶ ναυτικὸν πολὺ ἔτι ἐνιαυτὸν ἤδη βόσκοντας τὰ μὲν ἀπορεῖν, τὰ δ’ ἔτι ἀμηχανήσειν· δισχίλιά τε γὰρ τάλαντα ἤδη ἀνηλωκέναι καὶ ἔτι πολλὰ προσοφείλειν, ἤν τε καὶ ὁτιοῦν ἐκλίπωσι τῆς νῦν παρασκε …

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 14.52: χὥτι τὸ φάρμακόν ἐστιν ἀμηχανέοντος ἔρωτος,

All forms of ἀμηχανέω (conjugation)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.