absumebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →absumo, absumere, absumpsi, absumptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
spend, waste, squander, use up; take up (time); consume; exhaust, wear out;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XLI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...sufficiebat. cadauera intacta a canibus ac uolturibus tabes absumebat; satisque constabat nec illo nec priore anno in tanta..."Liber XXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...ipsa turba nauali mixta ex omni genere hominum absumebat, ut arcis praesidium etiam sine inuecto quia pauci erant..."