[Used] with an accusative. [Meaning he/she/it] killed.[1] Also [sc. attested is the plural] ἀπεχρήσαντο ["they attacked"], they killed. In Lemnian Women Aristophanes [writes]: "they attacked the men who begot their children."[2]
But ἀπέχρησε [means he/she/it] gave an oracle. "And thrice, not just once, [he?] gave him the oracle, to tell the Tyrians to revolt against those close to Darius."[3]
"Then [he?] did not give him the oracle that he would overpower his enemies, but even pillaged the temple of Apollo."[4]
And elsewhere: "so [he?] gave the oracle that he would destroy even these most wicked things of men."[5]
But ἀπέχρησε also means was sufficient [for].[6]