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
- T
Liber XLI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...sufficiebat. cadauera intacta a canibus ac uolturibus tabes absumebat; satisque constabat nec illo nec priore anno in tanta..." - T
Liber XXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...ipsa turba nauali mixta ex omni genere hominum absumebat, ut arcis praesidium etiam sine inuecto quia pauci erant..."