transitive. = lose, v.1, in its various senses; to part with or be parted from by misadventure… In present stem.

To spend unprofitably or in vain; to waste, get no return or result for (one's labour or efforts); to let slip (opportunities) without using them…

To put off (time), waste in delay. Obsolete.

In unfavourable sense: To spend, consume, employ uselessly or without adequate result. (Now the most… To spend, pass, occupy (time, one's life…

To allow to pass idly or unprofitably; to waste or lose (time). Obsolete.

transitive. To spend or pass (a period of time), esp. wastefully. Also: to take up (time). Cf. time-consuming, adj.

transitive. To spend (time) wastefully. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To waste (time). Obsolete.

To waste, pass away (time) in idleness.

transitive. To waste (time); to delay or postpone (a matter) by evasive excuses. Also intransitive.

To lose or waste (time). Obsolete.

transitive. With out. To extend the length or duration of (something); to spin or drag out. Obsolete. rare.

To waste in sloth.

To waste, consume, spend. Obsolete.

To waste (time).

to fret out (time): to waste.

To spend or occupy (time) in inactivity or without effect.

transitive. To bestow on a wrong or inappropriate object; to bestow (one's affection, confidence, etc.) misguidedly; †to spend (time) unprofitably…

To occupy, take up, or waste (time). †Also with double object.

transitive with out: To spend in ‘taverning’.

To waste (time, etc.). Obsolete. rare.

to drill away, on, out: to protract, lengthen out; to fritter away, spend aimlessly (time).

To pass away in sloth or inactivity. Obsolete.

to dally away: to consume or spend (time) in dalliance or by dallying.

To spend or employ (time) wastefully; to waste. Also with away.

quasi-transitive. with adverb compl. (forth, on, out): To draw out, prolong, protract by lingering, tarrying, or dallying. to linger away: to waste…

To while away or cause to pass in dangling.

quasi- transitive (usually with away).

transitive. With away: To waste (time) in idling. Chiefly dialect.

‘To waste time in the merest trifling’ (Forby 1825). Hence to diddle away: to trifle away (time), to waste in a trifling manner.

transitive. to run out the clock and variants. To waste time, stall, prevaricate intentionally; to go through the motions.