(prob. fr. pisd = pi-√ sad) pf. pipīḍé, to be squeezed or pressed out (as Soma), [RV. iv, 22, 8]; cl. 10. P. or Caus. pīḍayati (ep. also °te; aor. apipīḍat, or apīpiḍat, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 3]), [Dhātup. xxxii, 11]; to press, squeeze (kālaṃ kālena pīḍayan, ‘Pressing time against time’ i.e. ‘leaving everything to time’, [Mn. i, 51]), [AV.] &c. &c.; to hurt, harm, injure, oppress, pain, vex, [Mn.]; [MBh.] to beleaguer (a city), [R.]; to break (a vow), [Yājñ.]; to neglect (one's family), [MBh.]; (in astrol.) to cover (esp. with something inauspicious), to eclipse, obscure, [Var.] : Pass. pīḍyate, to be pressed or pained or afflicted, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to cause pain, hurt, [Pañcad.]