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- Latin · learned borrowing fromabsūmō“diminish”
- English todayabsume
Learned borrowing from Latin absūmō (“diminish”); formed from ab (“from, away from”) + sūmō (“take”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
absume
Today it means: To consume gradually; to waste away. Full definition →
Latin absūmō