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subj. perduint, T., C.), didī, ditus, ere, to make away with, destroy, ruin, squander, dissipate, throw away, waste, lose : fruges: se ipsum penitus: sumat, consumat, perdat, squander, T.: tempora precando, O.: oleum et operam.—Freq. in forms of cursing: te di deaeque omnes perduint, T.—Supin. acc.: Quor te is perditum? T.: se remque p. perditum ire, S.: Perditur haec lux, H.—To lose utterly, lose irrecoverably: omnīs fructūs industriae: litem, lose one's cause: causam: nomen perdidi, i. e. have quite forgotten, T.: ne perdiderit, non cessat perdere lusor, O.: perdendi temeritas (in gaming), Ta.

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