verb
Meaning 1
To destroy; ruin; lose.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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forspill
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History
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”).