absorbet
Dictionary entries
- Entry →absorbeo, absorbere, absorbui, absorptus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
devour; swallow up; engulf, submerge; engross; absorb, suck in; import; dry up;; devour; overwhelm; swallow up/engulf, submerge; absorb, suck in; import; dry up;
sg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Bacchides
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...taces? LYD. Atque acerrume aestuosam: absorbet ubi quemque attigit. M. Vbi ea mulier habitat? L. Hic. M. Vnde..."Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Phariae uice fungitur undae; 260at Tigrim subito tellus absorbet hiatuoccultosque tegit cursus rursusque renatumfonte nouo flumen pelagi..."
