The verb ανυω (anuo) means to affect or accomplish. It's quite common in the classics but conspicuously absent from the New Testament, save for the derivation below. In the classics, our verb commonly describes the beneficial completion of some journey or process, like the arriving of a ship in a harbor or a groom in the bridal chamber. It may mean to win a contest or race. It may mean to reach maturity, when one has completed one's youth. Our verb may describe the ending of something in the sense of its destruction or termination. And because our verb reflects a preoccupation with ending or completing some process, it tends to come with a clause of haste.

As said, our verb does not occur independently in the New Testament, but from it comes: