Ebibo, ébibis, ébibi, penult. corr. ebibitum, ebíbere. Plin. To drinke all vp.Ebibere imperium heri sui.Plaut.With drinking to forgette his maisters commaundement.Ebibere sanguinem alicui.Plaut.To sucke out ones bloude.Vbera ebibere.Ouid.To sucke drie.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ē-bĭbo, bi, bĭtum, 3, v. a., to drink up, drain (not in Cic. or Caes.). I.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.
, 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. —B.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.—II. In gen., to waste in drink, squander, Hor. S. 2, 3, 122. —III.Trop., to exhaust, remove, take away: spiritum meum, Vulg. Job, 6, 4.