(verb) : ē-bĭbo, bi, bĭtum, 3
* To drink up, drain (not in Cic. or Caes.).
* Lit.: quid comedent? quid ebibent?Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 14; so with comedere,Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 20; id. Ps. 5, 2, 11; hirneam vini,id. Am. 1, 1, 276: poculum,id. Curc. 2, 3, 80: ubera lactantia,Ov. M. 6, 342 et saep.: elephantos dracones,i. e. to suck their blood,Plin. 8, 12, 12, § 34; cf. sanguinem,Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 65: cum vino simitu imperium,to drink up, forget through drinking,Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 84 (cf. in the simplex: bibere mandata,id. Pers. 2, 1, 3, v. bibo).—Poet.: invenies illic, qui Nestoris ebibat annos, to drink the age of Nestor (i. e. to drink as many glasses as equal the years of Nestor), Ov. F. 3, 533.
* Transf., of inanimate things, to suck in, draw in, absorb: (fretum) peregrinos amnes,Ov. M. 8, 837; cf. Plin. 5, 15, 15, § 71: saniem (lana),id. 9, 38, 62.
* In gen., to waste in drink, squander, Hor. S. 2, 3, 122.
* Trop., to exhaust, remove, take away: spiritum meum,Vulg. Job, 6, 4.

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