1. to seize underneath or inwardly , (Homer)

2. to draw or take away from under a thing, with genitive, (Iliad by Homer):—;also τὴν χεῖρα ὑφῄρει tried to draw it away , (Aristophanes Comicus)

3. to take away underhand, filch away , (Thucydides); ὑφ. τῆς ὑποψίας gradually to take away part of . (Thucydides):—;Pass. ὑπαραιρημένος (ionic perfect participle) put secretly away, made away with , (Herdotus Historicus):—;so in Mid. to take away underhand, filch away, purloin , (Herdotus Historicus), etc.

4. in Mid. also with accusative pers. ὑφ. τινά τινος to rob him of a thing, (Aeschines Orator) (ML)