effundebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →effundo, effundere, effudi, effusus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
pour out/away/off; allow to drain; shower; volley (missiles); send/stream forth;; shed (blood/tears); discharge (vomit/urine), debouch, emit; flow out, overflow;; break out; bear/yield/bring forth; expend/use up; unseat, eject/drop/discard;; stretch/spread out, extend; spread (sail); loosen/slacken/fling, give rein;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XVI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...vertit; et quia venae quamquam interruptae parum sanguinis effundebant, hactenus manu servi usus ut immotum pugionem extolleret, adpressit..."Liber XIV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...dominationibus adspiciebatur, delectique sacerdotes specie religionis omnes fortunas effundebant. nec arduum videbatur exscindere coloniam nullis munimentis saeptam; quod..."