absumo

ab- (“from, away from”) +‎ sūmō (“take; take up, assume”)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /abˈsuː.moː/, [äpˈs̠uːmoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /abˈsu.mo/, [äbˈsuːmo]

absūmō (present infinitive absūmere, perfect active absūmpsī, supine absūmptum); third conjugation

1. to diminish, take away, use up, consume, exhaust

   Synonyms: hauriō, exhauriō, abūtor, cōnsūmō, conterō, terō, accīdō

2. to ruin, destroy, annihilate, corrupt

   Synonyms: ruīnō, dēstruō, exscindō, aboleō, dīruō, perdō, sepeliō, occīdō, tollō, populor, interimō, accīdō, perimō, trucīdō

   Antonyms: ēmendō, reficiō, reparō, corrigō, medeor

3. to kill

   Synonyms: necō, caedō, interficiō, trucīdō, tollō, occīdō, peragō, percutiō, interimō, perimō, iugulō, obtruncō, cōnficiō, ēnecō, sōpiō, cōnsūmō, dēiciō

• absūmptiō
• absūmptus

• → English: absume

• “absumo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “absumo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• absumo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.