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
- P
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..." - P
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..."