(verb) : pĕr-ūro, ussi, ustum, 3
* To burn through and through; hence
* Lit.
* To burn up, consume: perussit ignis multa,Lucr. 5, 396: perusti late agri,Liv. 24, 20: vas,Plin. 34, 17, 49, § 165.—Esp., to be burned or scorched by the sun: Libyco sole perusta coma,Prop. 4 (5), 9, 46. mixti Garamante perusto,sunburned, swarthy,Luc. 4, 679: perusti Indiae populi,Sen. Med. 484: zona perusta,Macr. Somn. Scip. 2, 8.
* Trop., to burn, inflame, consume: hominem perustum gloriā volunt incendere,Cic. Fam. 13, 15, 2: valido perurimur aestu,Ov. A. A. 3, 543: (uniones), qui male cor meum perurunt,Mart. 12, 49, 9: intestina,Cat. 78, 3: pectus curis,Sen. Med. 547; Val. Fl. 1, 76: paupertatis maledictum quosdam perurit,Sen. Const. Sap. 17, 2.
* To inflame, gall, rub sore: Ibericis peruste funibus latus,Hor. Epod. 4, 3: oneri colla perusta,Ov. P. 1, 5, 24: tempora,Luc. 6, 193.
* Transf., of cold, to nip, pinch: substramentis per hiemem operito, ne peruratur,Cato, R. R. 161: aliquid frigore,Sen. Q. N. 4, 13, 6: terra perusta gelu,Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 48: perurere congelationibus vulnera,Col. 4, 8, 2.

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