† aswindv.
Obsolete.
1. intransitive. To languish away, vanish, perish.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [verb (intransitive)]
worseeOE
aswindc885
worsena1250
appair1340
impair1340
fainta1375
pairc1390
vade1471
decay1511
decline1530
degenerate1545
lapse1641
addle1654
sunset1656
deteriorate1758
worst1781
descend1829
disimprove1846
slush1882
devolute1893
worser1894
c885 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxiii. §4 Þýlæs..ealle oþre gesceafta aswindað.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 133 Sum [of þe sede feol] among þeornen and þer aswond.
a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1572 Al thi sputing schal aswinde.
1250 Laȝamon Brut 17940 Sealde he aswint þat to him seolue tresteþ.
2. in past participle. Languishing, worn out; enervated.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective] > languid
aswindc885
fade1303
enlangouredc1400
sweyntc1450
wearish1650
languid1727
languorous1753
Mondayish1804
c885 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xl. §4 Hwý ge swá unnytte sión & swá aswundene?
a1250 Owl & Nightingale 534 Vor ich nam non aswunde wrecche.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11105 Þat his folc gode aswunden [c1300 Otho a-swonde] ne læie þere.
c1350 Leg. Rood (1871) 52 Ȝe beþ neih aswounde.
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