Definition of stringo
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Orthography ID = 1015643
1.
LEM
stringō, stringere, strinxī, strictus
STRAG-
verb (3rd conjugation)
  1. to draw tight, bind tight, compress, press together
  2. to touch lightly, graze
  3. [of places] to border on, touch
  4. to strip off, pluck off, cut away, clip, prune
  5. [cf. in hosti_s stringatur iambus] to be drawn (as a weapon)
  6. [figuratively] to waste, consume, reduce
Abbreviations
stringō inxī, ictus, ere STRAG-, to draw tight, bind tight, compress, press together: stricta frigore volnera, L.: ferri duritiem, forge, Ct. dub.

—To touch lightly, graze: laevas cautes, V.: Stringebat summas ales undas, O.: metas rotā, O.: tela stringentia corpus, V.: dente pedem, O.

—Of places, to border on, touch: Scytharum gens ultima Asiae, quā Bactra sunt, stringit, Cu.

—To strip off, pluck off, cut away, clip, prune: quernas glandes, V.: folia ex arboribus, Cs.: strictis foliis vivere, L.: celeriter gladios, unsheathe, Cs.: strictam aciem offerre, V.: cultrum, L.: manum, to bare, O.

— cf. in hostīs stringatur iambus, be drawn (as a weapon), O.

—Fig., to waste, consume, reduce: Praeclaram stringat malus ingluvie rem, H.

—To touch, move, affect, injure, wound, pain: animum, V.: nomen meum, O.
 
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