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absume

transitive verb
-ed/-ing/-s

Definition of absume

obsolete
: to consume gradually

First Known Use of absume

1566, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology for absume

Latin absumere, from ab- ab- entry 1 + sumere to take

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