dĕ-ūro, ussi, ustum, 3
* V. a., to burn up, consume (freq. in the historians; elsewh. rare; not in Cic.).
* Prop.: pluteos turrium, *Caes. B. G. 7, 25: vicum,Liv. 10, 4; cf.: agros vicosque (with depopulari),id. 39, 2: partem Circi,Tac. A. 6, 45: montem Caelium,id. ib. 4, 64: frumenta,id. 40, 41 et saep.
* Transf., of cold, to destroy (cf.: aduro, amburo, and Gr. καίειν): hiems arbores deusserat,Liv. 40, 45; cf. Curt. 8, 9, 12. And of destruction by a serpent's breath, Sen. Clem. 1, 25, 4.

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