spillen

spillen

1. definite singular of spille

spillen

1. gerund of spille
   • 2016, Maksim Gorkij, Mellem fremmede, Bechs Forlag - Viatone, →ISBN:

     ... omend de naturligvis grinede ham ud for hans snakken og hans evige spillen kort.

     ... although they obviously laughed at him for his talking and eternal playing cards.

   • 2010, Kirsten Thorup, Førkrigstid, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:

     Hun er fyldt til randen med hans halvkvædede viser, hans spillen hasard med deres godmodighed.

     She is fed up with his half-finished songs, his gambling with their kindness.

   • 2013, Jakob Levinsen, Helte og hobbitter - Tolkien og hans verden, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:

     ... og med Mordors spillen på det latinske »Mors«, død, er det præcis den virkning hos læseren, der bliver udnyttet her.

     ... and with Mordor playing on Latin »Mors«, death, this is precisely the effect with the reader that is used here.

From Middle Dutch spilden.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɪ.lə(n)/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: spil‧len
• Rhymes: -ɪlən

spillen

1. (transitive) to waste, to spend vainly or profligately

   Synonym: verspillen

2. (transitive, dated) to spend, to use
3. (transitive) to spill

   Synonym: morsen

• spilgraag
• spiller
• spillig
• spilpenning
• spilziek
• spilziekte
• spilzucht
• verspillen

From Old High German spilōn, from Proto-West Germanic *spilōn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃpilən/
• Rhymes: -ilən

spillen (third-person singular present spillt, past participle gespillt, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. (transitive or intransitive) to play

• spylle, spille, spyl, spil, spyll, spill, spilden, spyllyn

From Old English spillan, from Proto-West Germanic *spilþijan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspilən/

spillen

1. to slaughter, eliminate; to cause the death of
2. to pass away; to face death or the end of life
3. to demolish, liquidate, or ruin; to make barren or turn into wasteland
4. to extirpate, or extinguish; to totally ruin
5. to smash, split, or sunder
6. to disappear; to be demolished or smashed
7. to cause disorder and chaos; to wreck or totally damage (usually used figuratively)
8. to damage, harm, or hurt; to ruin or interrupt (used figuratively)
9. to spill; to run out or leak; to splurt
10. to misuse; to use ineffectively or erroneously
11. (Christianity) to punish by sending to Hell

• spiller
• spillyng

• English: spill
• Scots: spill

• “spillen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-21.

spillen

1. definite plural of spill