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intĕrim, adv. [inter and old acc. of is].

  1. I. I.q. interea, meanwhile, in the meantime: ibo intro: tu hic ante aedes interim speculare, Plaut. Mil. 4, 3, 28: interim dum ante ostium sto, Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 3: hoc interim spatio conclave illud concidisse, Cic. de Or. 2, 86: quo fugit interim dolor ille? Quint. 11, 1, 54; 1, 12, 6.
    1. B. For a time, for a while (post-Aug.): ut uno interim contenti simus exemplo C. Gracchi, for the moment, Quint. 1, 10, 27: interim admonere illud satis est, id. 2, 4, 3; 3, 8, 5.
    2. C. (Cf. interea.) However, nevertheless: interim velim mihi ignescas, Cic. Att. 7, 12, 3: quod alias vitiosum, interim alias rectum est, Quint. 1, 5, 29; 2, 12, 2 al.
  2. II. I. q. nonnumquam, sometimes (post-Aug.): Latinis quidem semper, sed etiam Graecis interim, Quint. 2, 1, 1; so, opp. semper, Sen. de Ira, 2, 21, 8: laturi sententiam indocti saepius atque interim rustici, Quint. 12, 10, 53; 11, 3, 51; with nonnumquam, id. 4, 5, 20: interim … interim, sometimes … sometimes, at one time … at another, Quint. 5, 10, 34; 6, 3, 59; 9, 2, 100; Plin. Ep. 10, 27: interim … mox, Tac. A. 14, 41 Dräger.

intĕr-ĭmo (better than interĕmo, Bramb. s. v., but v. Munro, Lucr. Introd. p. 33), ēmi, emptum, or emtum, 3, v. a. [emo], to take out of the midst, to take away, do away with, abolish; to destroy, slay, kill (syn.: interficio, perimo; class.).

  1. I. Lit.: Abantem, Verg. A. 10, 428: vitam, Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 29: interimendorum sacrorum causā, Cic. Mur. 12, 27: qui Argum dicitur interemisse, id. N. D. 3, 22, 56: sensum, Lucr. 3, 288: se, Plaut. Cist. 3, 13: si quae interimant, innumerabilia sint, etiam ea quae conservent, infinita esse debere, Cic. N. D. 1, 19, 50: Hasdrubale interempto, Hor. C. 1, 4, 72: qui ferro sunt interempti. Quint. 3, 8, 5.
    So with se, to kill one’s self, commit suicide: Lucretia se ipsa interemit, Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 66.
  2. II. Transf., to kill, i. e. to distress intolerably: illaec interemit me modo hic oratio, Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 22: me quidem, judices, exanimant et interimunt hae voces Milonis, distress me, Cic. Mil. 34.