absume

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin absūmō (“diminish”); formed from ab (“from, away from”) + sūmō (“take”).[1][2]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

absume (third-person singular simple present absumes, present participle absuming, simple past and past participle absumed)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To consume gradually; to waste away.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 8
  2. ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absume”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.

Anagrams[edit]

Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

absūme

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of absūmō
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