Perimo, périmis, pen. cor. peremi, pen. prod. peremptum, perímere, Ex per & emo compositum. Plaut.To take awaye: to kill.Penitus perimere aliquid. Lucret. Vtterly to abolishe and bring to naught.Perimere & omnino delere. Ci. To kill and vtterly abolish.Causam publicam si mea mors peremisset, neminÊ vnquã fore qui auderer, &c. Cice. If my death had cleane onerthrowne the quarel of the common weale.Consilium alicuius perimere.Cicer.To breake and vtterly disappoint ones purpose.Curas perimere. Plin. To confound and abolish care.Perimere atque tollere ludos.Cic.Reditum alicui perimere. Cicero. To stoppe one of his way whereby he shoulde returne.Dolo perimere aliquem. Sen.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
pĕrĭmo (orig. form pĕrĕmo, Cato ap. Fest. p. 217 Müll.), ēmi, emptum (emtum), 3, v. a. [per-emo], to take away entirely, to annihilate, extinguish, destroy; to cut off, hinder, prevent.I. In gen. (class.; syn.: perdo, deleo): penitus materiem omnem, Lucr. 1, 226: sensu perempto, Cic. Tusc. 1, 37, 89: luna subito perempta est, was taken away, i. e. vanished, disappeared, id. poët. Div. 1, 11, 18: divum simulacra peremit fulminis ardor, id. ib. 1, 12, 19: Troja perempta,
destroyed
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ruined
, Verg. A. 5, 787: corpus macie, Liv. 2, 23; cf. id. 38, 21: ne quid consul auspici peremat, should hinder, prevent, Cato ap. Fest. p. 217 Müll.: reditum, Cic. Planc. 42, 101: nisi aliqui casus consilium ejus peremisset, id. Off. 3, 7, 33: si causam publicam mea mors peremisset, id. Sest. 22, 49; id. Fragm. ap. Non. 450, 5: perimit urbem incendio, Vulg. Jos. 11, 11.—Absol.: sin autem (supremus ille dies) perimit ac delet omnino, quid melius, quam? etc., Cic. Tusc. 1, 49, 117.—II. In partic., to kill, slay (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf. trucido): perempta et interempta pro interfectis poni solet a poëtis, Fest. p. 217 Müll.; Lucr. 3, 886: crudeli morte peremptus, Verg. A. 6, 163: aliquem caede, id. ib. 9, 453: sorte, id. ib. 11, 110: hunc, ubi tam teneros volucres matremque peremit (trans. from Homer), Cic. poët. Div. 2, 30, 64; Ov. M. 8, 395: conceptum abortu, Plin. 3, 44, 69, 172: caedes fratrum indigne peremptorum, Just. 7, 6.