to injure, destroy, kill; only in the stock phrase pāṇaṃ atimāpeti (with variant reading atipāteti) to destroy life, to kill DN.i.52 (variant reading ˚pāteti) = DN-a.i.159 (: pāṇaṃ hanati pi parehi hanāpeti either to kill or incite others to murder); MN.i.404, MN.i.516; SN.iv.343; AN.iii.205 (correct T. reading atimāteti; variant reading pāteti); Dhp.246 (variant reading ˚pāteti) = Dhp-a.iii.356 (: parassa jīvitindriyaṃ upacchindati).

ati + māpeti, Caus. of mī, mināte, orig. meaning “to do damage to”