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Latin
Etymology
ab- (“from, away from”) + sūmō (“take; take up, assume”)
Pronunciation
Verb
absūmō (present infinitive absūmere, perfect active absūmpsī, supine absūmptum); third conjugation
- to diminish, take away, use up, consume, exhaust
- Synonyms: hauriō, exhauriō, abūtor, cōnsūmō, conterō, terō, accīdō
- to ruin, destroy, annihilate, corrupt
- Synonyms: ruīnō, dēstruō, exscindō, aboleō, dīruō, perdō, sepeliō, occīdō, tollō, populor, interimō, accīdō, perimō, trucīdō
- Antonyms: ēmendō, reficiō, reparō, corrigō, medeor
- to kill
- Synonyms: necō, caedō, interficiō, trucīdō, tollō, occīdō, peragō, percutiō, interimō, perimō, iugulō, obtruncō, cōnficiō, ēnecō, sōpiō, cōnsūmō, dēiciō
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References
- “absumo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “absumo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- absumo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.