Forspill

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To destroy; ruin; lose. transitive

    "In fine, all these treasures, like snow on the wold, Three days lain, then to nothing forspilled, suppose."

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"In fine, all these treasures, like snow on the wold, Three days lain, then to nothing forspilled, suppose."

Etymology

From Middle English forspillen, from Old English forspillan, forspildan (“to waste, lose, disperse, bring to nothing, destroy, ruin, kill”), from Proto-West Germanic *furispilþijan. Equivalent to for- + spill. Cognate with Old High German farspildan, Dutch verspillen (“to waste”), Swedish förspilla (“to waste”).

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