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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin insumere; prefix in- (in) + sumere (to take).

Verb

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insume (third-person singular simple present insumes, present participle insuming, simple past and past participle insumed)

  1. (obsolete) To take in; to absorb.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for insume”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

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Verb

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īnsūme

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of īnsūmō

Spanish

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Verb

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insume

  1. inflection of insumir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative