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cōn-sūmō sūmpsī

(-sūmpstī, Pr.), sūmptus, ere, to use up, eat, devour: pabulum, Cs.: multa: fruges, H.: mensas accisis dapibus, V.—Fig., to consume, devour, waste, squander, annihilate, destroy: nihil est quod non consumat vetustas: omnem materiam, O.: harundo Consumpta in ventos, wasted away, V.: omnibus fortunis sociorum consumptis, Cs.: aedīs incendio, L.: viscera fero morsu, O.—Of time, to spend, pass, consume: aetas in bellis consumpta: nox in exinaniundā nave consumitur: partem diei, Cs.: tempus, L.: dies per dubitationem, S.: precando Tempora cum blandis verbis, to waste, O.—To use, employ, spend, exhaust: materiam ficti, O.: Consumptis precibus transit in iram, O.: pecuniam in agrorum emptionibus, to lay out: in armis plurimum studii, N.: in re unā curam, H.: si quid consili Habet, ut consumat nunc, use it all, T.: multā oratione consumptā, S. —To use up, exhaust, impair: (actio) consumpta superiore motu: consumptis viribus, Cs.: consumpta membra senectā, O.: cum terras consumpserit, aëra tentet, scoured, O.—To destroy, kill: si me vis morbi consumpsisset: fame, Cs.: morbo, N.: hic tecum consumerer aevo, V.

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