contereant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contereo, conterere, conterui, conteritus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Whitaker
- Age:
- Later
frighten thoroughly; fill with terror; suppress/intimidate by terrorizing;
pl. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Rudens
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...virginalis, liberos parentibus sublectos habebis atque indigno quaestu conteres? nam huic alterae quae patria sit profecto nescio, nisi..."de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...unus ab illis numeretur annus, omnis annos suos conterent. Quosdam antequam in summum ambitionis eniterentur, inter prima luctantis..."