eat up, eat into/away at, nibble, squander; wear down, exhaust; erode
Latin word, found 20 times in the texts on Socratos.
Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.24: … t satiata ádfatim Clangórem fundit vástum et sublime ávolans Pinnáta cauda nóstrum adulat sánguinem. Cum véro adesum inflátu renovatúmst iecur, Tum rúrsum taetros ávida se ad pastús refert. Sic hánc custodem maésti cruciatús a …
Vergil, Georgics 4.242: quis dubitet? nam saepe favos ignotus adedit
Vergil, Aeneid 9.537: corripuit tabulas et postibus haesit adesis.
All forms of adedo