Diruo, diruis, pen. cor. dírui, dirûtum, penult. corr. dirúere. Li. To breake downe: to ouerthrow: to destroy.Diruere & Aedificare, contraria.Cic.Aræm diruere. Sil. Fores diruere. Propert. To breake downe doores.Vrbes diruit.Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dī-rŭo, rŭi, rŭtum, 3, v. a., to tear asunder, overthrow, demolish, destroy (class. —cf.: deleo, diluo, exstinguo, everto, demolior). I. Prop.: maceriam, Ter. Ad. 5, 7, 10: urbem, Cic. Inv. 1, 40, 73; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8, 25; Suet. Caes. 54; Ov. M. 12, 551 et saep.: muros, Nep. Con. 4 fin.: templa, Suet. Calig. 60: arcum circi, id. Ner. 25: monumentum, id. Dom. 8; Hor. C. 3, 30, 4: fores ira, Prop. 4 (5), 9, 14: arbusta, Verg. A. 10, 363: regna Priami, Prop. 2, 28, 54 (3, 26, 8 M.); cf. id. 4 (5), 1, 113 et saep.— Absol.: diruit, aedificat, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 100; cf.: nova diruunt, alia aedificant, Sall. C. 20, 12.—Hyperbol.: caelum, Auct. B. Hisp. 42 fin.—II.Transf.: agmina vasto impetu,
to drive asunder, scatter
, Hor. C. 4, 14, 30: omnia Bacchanalia, i. e.
to abolish
, Liv. 39, 18.—And in milit. lang.: aere dirutus, qs. ruined in pay, i. e. deprived of pay; said of a soldier whose pay was stopped as a punishment, Varr. ap. Non. 532, 4 sq.; cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 13 Zumpt; cf. also beyond the milit. sphere, and without aere, of a bankrupt: homo diruptus dirutusque,