The corpus record — Latin

obsorbeo

drink up, to swallow

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Where it lives

Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k
Miles Gloriosus 1 · 0.79/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ob-sorbĕo — Lewis & Short

ob-sorbĕo, ŭi, 2,

I v. a., to sup or drink up, to swallow or gulp down (poetical).

I Lit., Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 21: aquam, id. Curc. 2, 3, 34: placentas, to gulp down, bolt, Hor. S. 2, 8, 24: unionem liquefactum, Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 121.—Absol.: ter die absorbebat, terque eructabat, Hyg. Fab. 125: ursis homines non plane comedendi, sed obsorbendi objectabantur, Lact. Mort. Pers. 21, 6.—

II Transf.: fores, Quae obsorbent quicquid venit intra pessulos, swallow up, Plaut. Truc. 2, 3, 29 (dub.; al. absorbent).

In the wild

obsorbui Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 3.2
obsorbeam Plautus, Curculio 2.3
obsorbuit Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.35.p8
obsorbens Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.103.p4
obsorbent Plautus, Truculentus 2.3

Where it came from

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