diruunt
Dictionary entries
- Entry →diruo, diruere, dirui, dirutus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
demolish/wreck/destroy, pull down, raze to ground; overthrow; bankrupt (L+S);; have one's pay stopped/docked (of soldier); scatter, drive asunder (L+S);
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
de Constantia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...humanas manus effugiunt et ab his qui templa diruunt ac simulacra conflant nihil diuinitati nocetur, ita quidquid..."Liber XXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...crudelis peruenit. ignem deinde tectis iniciunt ac diruunt quae incendio absumi nequeunt; adeo uestigia quoque urbis exstinguere..."BELLUM CATILINAE
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...ullum esse? Cum tabulas, signa, toreumata emunt, nova diruunt, alia aedificant, postremo omnibus modis pecuniam trahunt, vexant, tamen..."