absume
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin absūmō (“diminish”); formed from ab (“from, away from”) + sūmō (“take”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əbˈsuːm/
- (US) IPA(key): /æbˈsum/, /əbˈsum/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -uːm
Verb
[edit]absume (third-person singular simple present absumes, present participle absuming, simple past and past participle absumed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To consume gradually; to waste away.
References
[edit]- ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 8
- ^ 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
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