destruent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →destruo, destruere, destruxi, destructus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
demolish, pull/tear down; destroy, ruin; demolish/refute (arguments/evidence);
pl. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
Liber VIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...aliquando quaeretur et vario exitii genere tollentur: alias destruent bella, alias desidia paxque ad inertiam versa consumet..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...somnum obruto tunicula capite mentiri. Sed repente quasi destruente fortuna constantiam meam eiusmodi vox supra constratum puppis congemuit..."