Obruo, óbruis óbrui, óbrutum, pen. corr. obrúere. Cicero. To couer cleane ouer & ouer with earth or other things: to ouerwhelme: to hide in the grounde: to cloy: to pester: to ouerthrow: to confound.Obruere & Eruere, contraria.Cic.Obruere lapidibus, telis, & id genus.Cic. Li. To ouerwhelme and couer cleane with stones, weapons, &c. To stone to death.Obrutus niuibus, pruinísque.Liu.Ouerwhelnied or drowned in snow.Numero obruimur.Virg.We be oppressed or ouercome with the multitude.Procella obruit viros.Ouid.Nox trtam obruit roriferis vmbris. Lucret. The night couereth the earth with dewie shadowes.Obruere sale. Plin. To coner cleane with salt: to powder.Corpus obruere tellure.Ouidius.To burie the bodie in the earth: to interre.Obrutum vetustate, vel situ vetustatis. Plinius. Lost, perished, or out of remembraunce by reason of long continuaunce of time.Obrutus in terra. Cato. Buried in the earth, digged in the ground.Semina obruere versata terra.Ouid.Thesaurum obruere.Cic.To hide in the ground.Obruere se vino.Cic.To be druncke: to ouercharge himselfe with wine. Obruere, per metaphoram, pro confundere, abolere, euertere. Quint. Tot voluptates obruere possunt vnum dolorem. So many pleasures may put away and cleane drowne one sorrow.Obruere & delere. Cicero. To confound and cleane put out of memorie.Obruere & perdere.Cic.Vtterly to confound and vndoe.Perpetua obliuione aliquid obruere.Cic.To sorget for euer: to cause for euer to be forgotten.Famam alicuius obruere.Tacit.To abolishe and confounde the name of one.
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ob-rŭo, ŭi, ŭtum, 3 (inf. pres. pass. OBRI for obrui, Inscr. Marin. Fratr. Arv. p. 341; v. in the foll. I. B. 1.), v. a. (n.Lucr. 3, 775; v. infra), to overwhelm, overthrow, strike down; to cover, cover over with any thing; also to hide in the ground, bury by heaping over (class.; cf.: opprimo, subruo). I.Lit.A. In gen.: aliquem caestu, Stat. Achill. 1, 191: concidit, et totis fratrem gravis obruit armis, id. Th. 11, 573; Verg. A. 5, 692: confossus undique obruitur, Curt. 8, 11: ranae marinae dicuntur obruere sese harenā solere,
bury themselves in the sand
, Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 125: thesaurum,
to bury
, id. Sen. 7, 21: ova,
to hide in the earth
, id. N. D. 2, 52, 129: aegros veste,
to cover
, Plin. 26, 3, 8, 16: oceanum rubra tractim obruit aethra, covered, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4 (Ann. v. 418 Vahl.); so, terram nox obruit umbris, Lucr. 6, 864.—B. In partic., to bury, inter a dead body (perh. only post-Aug.), Tac. A. 1, 29 fin.: cadaver levi caespite obrutum est, Suet. Calig. 59: cujus ossa in Vulcanali obruta sunt, Paul. ex Fest. s. v. statua, p. 290 Müll.: QVOD SE VOLVIT OBRI. Inscr. Marin. Fratr. Arv. p. 341.—2.To sink in the sea, cover with water: puppes, Verg. A. 1, 69: quos Obruit Auster,
overwhelmed, sunk
, id. ib. 6, 336: navem, Dig. 9, 2, 29: obrutus adulter aquis, Ov. Her. 1, 6: obruerit cum tot deus aequoris undis, id. P. 3, 6, 29: vultus, id. Tr. 1, 2, 34: Aegyptum Nilus, Cic. N. D. 2, 52.—C.To sow seed; cover with earth: semina terrā, Ov. R. Am. 173: milium, Col. 11, 2, 72: lupinum, id. 11, 2, 81: betam, id. 11, 3, 42.—D.To overload, surfeit with any thing: se vino, Cic. Deiot. 9. —II.Trop.A.To overwhelm, bury, conceal, put out of sight, abolish, consign to oblivion: ut adversā quasi perpetuā oblivione obruamus, Cic. Fin. 1, 17, 57; cf.: ea quae umquam vetustas obruet aut quae tanta delebit oblivio?id. Deiot. 13, 37; and: (sermo) nec umquam de ullo perennis fuit, et obruitur hominum interitu, id. Rep. 6, 23, 25: talis viri interitu sex suos obruere consulatus,
to dim, cloud, destroy the glory of six consulships
, id. Tusc. 5, 19, 56.— 2.Neutr.: et domus aetatis spatio ne fessa vetusto obruat, i. e.