ambedo

amb-ĕdo, ēdi, ēsum, 3 ( pres. 3 d pers. ambest, Paul. ex Fest. p. 4 Müll.), v. a., to eat or gnaw around, and with an extension of the idea (cf.: adedo, aduro, accīdo), to waste, consume (very rare; not in Lucr. 5, 396, where the correct read. is lambens; v. Lachm. ad h. l.):

flammis ambesa Robora,

Verg. A. 5, 752:

ambesas absumere mensas,

id. ib. 3, 257:

vis locustarum ambederat quidquid herbidum,

Tac. A. 15, 5; so Dig. 41, 1, 38.