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dilapido

dilapido · v. a

to throw away, squander, to consume

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What it meant

dī-lăpĭdo — Lewis & Short

dī-lăpĭdo, āre, v. a., lit., to scatter like stones; hence,

I to throw away, squander, to consume (very rare): nostras triginta minas, Ter. Ph. 5, 7, 4; cf. facultates, Firm. Math. 6, 10: grandine hominumque boumque labores, to destroy, Col. 10, 330.

Where it came from

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