delevit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →deleo, delere, delevi, deletus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
erase, wipe/scratch/remove (letters/marks), wipe/blot out, expunge, delete;; annihilate/exterminate, kill every member of a group; put end to, end/abolish;; destroy completely, demolish/obliterate/crush; ruin; overthrow; nullify/annul;
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- C
Alcibiades
Cornelius Nepos
"...gerendae non dimisit eoque impetu bellum totum delevit. At Alcibiades, victis Atheniensibus non satis tuta eadem loca sibi..." - C
Themistocles
Cornelius Nepos
"...defendentibus, interfectis sacerdotibus, quos in arce invenerat, incendio delevit. Cuius flamma perterriti classiarii, cum manere non auderent..." - M
In Catilinam IV
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...duas urbes huic imperio infestissimas, Carthaginem Numantiamque, delevit, habeatur vir egregius Paulus ille, cuius currum rex potentissimus quondam..."