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单词 absume
释义

absume

English

Etymology

Latin absūmere, present active infinitive of absūmō (diminish); formed from ab (from, away from) + sūmō (take).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əbˈsum/
  • (US) IPA(key): /æbˈsum/, /əbˈsum/

Verb

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. [Attested from the late 16th century until the mid 18th century.][2]

References

  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. “absume” in Lesley Brown, editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.

Anagrams

  • Baumés

Latin

Verb

absūme

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of absūmō
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