The corpus record — Latin

degravo

press down, to overpower

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Where it lives

Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 1 · 0.76/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 4 1 · 0.6/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 3 1 · 0.5/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2 · 0.17/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dē-grăvo — Lewis & Short

dē-grăvo, no

I perf., ātum, 1, v. a., to weigh or press down, to overpower (not ante-Aug.).

I Prop.: unda caput, Prop. 3, 7, 58 (4, 6, 58 M.); so, caput, Ov. M. 5, 352: altam ulmum (vitis), id. Tr. 5, 3, 35: partīs navigii, Plin. 9, 5, 4, § 10: circumventum cornu, Liv. 3, 62: litora ingenti passu, Ov. M. 13, 777 al.—Absol.: pulverum mole degravante, Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 83.—

II Trop., to drag down, burden, incommode: peritos nandi lassitudo et vulnera et pavor degravant, Liv. 4, 33 fin.: haec gremium, laxos degravat illa sinus, Ov. F. 4, 436: aetas aliquem, Sen. Ep. 30, 1. Cf. absol.: vulnus degravabat, id. 7, 24.

In the wild

degravat Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 4.30.1
degravati Minucius Felix, Octavius 26.8
degravante Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.24.p1
degravat Statius, Thebais 9.274
degravet Ovid, Tristia 5.3.35
degrauant Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 4 p33

6 of 19 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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