absumunt
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;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber IV
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...usque adeo incerti tabescunt volnere caeco. Adde quod absumunt viris pereuntque labore, adde quod alterius sub nutu degitur..."Liber II
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...asportarent res, omne id tempus cum coniuratis consultando absumunt, evincuntque instando ut litterae sibi ad Tarquinios darentur..."