forspill

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To destroy; ruin; lose. transitive
    — In fine, all these treasures, like snow on the wold, Three days lain, then to nothing forspilled, suppose.

词形变化

forspills present,singular,third-person forspilling participle,present forspilled participle,past forspilled past forspilt participle,past forspilt past

词源

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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