absorbuit
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;
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Satura VI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...blanda intrantis atque aera poposcit. [continueque iacens cunctorum absorbuit ictus.] mox lenone suas iam dimittente puellas tristis abit..."Liber V
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...nulla, quia devexa terra, quidquid liquoris accepit nec absorbuit, effundit in Tiberim. Medios ille agros secat navium patiens..."