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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *swindan.
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Verb
swindan
- to waste away, languish, grow languid, be consumed
- 1921, Joseph Bosworth & Thomas Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, German Lexicon Project.
- Se synfulla swindeþ. ― (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- The sinful one wasteth away.
- Sāwel heora on yfelum swand. ― (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Their soul wasted away in evil.
- Swindan þū dydest sāwle his. ― (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Thou did'st consume his soul
- On þām frumwylme heora ġeċyrrednesse hȳ hīsylfe fulfremede taliaþ, ac hȳ swīþe reċene āwlaciaþ and swindende ācōliaþ. ― (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- In the initial welling up (of feelings) from their conversion, they reckon themselves complete, but they very readily grow lukewarm, and thereby languishing, they cool off (spiritually).
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