(verb) : ex-sorbĕo or exorbĕo, ŭi (
* Perf.: exsorpsi,Sen. ad Helv. 10, 9), 2, , to suck out, suck or sup up, suck in, drain (class.).
* Lit.: ova,Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 19: sucum,App. Mag. p. 276, 10; Ov. F. 6, 145: gustaras civilem sanguinem, vel potius exsorbueras,Cic. Phil. 2, 29, 71; cf. id. de Or. 1, 52, 225; id. poët. Tusc. 2, 8, 20. —In mal. part.: viros,to exhaust,Juv. 10, 223.
* Trop.: animam amborum,to swallow up, to destroy,Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 28: praedas,Cic. de Harusp. 27, 59: tristitiam alicui, to remove, Turp. ap. Non. 102, 32: multorum stultitiam perpessus est, arrogantiam pertulit, difficultates exsorbuit, qs. drained to the dregs, Cic. Mur. 9, 19: tot congiaria principum et ingens Capitolii vectigal,Sen. Helv. Cons. 10, 3.

s. TLL