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
- T
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..." - T
Liber II
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...asportarent res, omne id tempus cum coniuratis consultando absumunt, evincuntque instando ut litterae sibi ad Tarquinios darentur..."