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* Interlingua: {{t|ia|[[passar]] [[le]] [[tempore]]}} |
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* Portuguese: {{t|pt|[[passar]] [[o]] [[tempo]]}} |
* Portuguese: {{t|pt|[[passar]] [[o]] [[tempo]]}} |
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* Russian: {{t+|ru|корота́ть|impf |
* Russian: {{t+|ru|корота́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|скорота́ть|pf}} |
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* Spanish: {{t|es|[[pasar]] el [[tiempo]]}} |
* Spanish: {{t|es|[[pasar]] el [[tiempo]]}} |
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* Swedish: {{t|sv|fördriva}} |
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Revision as of 14:52, 24 July 2015
English
Verb
while away (third-person singular simple present whiles away, present participle whiling away, simple past and past participle whiled away)
- (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To spend (time) idly but pleasantly
- We whiled away the hours playing cards.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:, Episode 12, The Cyclops
- A posse of Dublin Metropolitan police superintended by the Chief Commissioner in person maintained order in the vast throng for whom the York street brass and reed band whiled away the intervening time by admirably rendering on their blackdraped instruments the matchless melody endeared to us from the cradle by Speranza's plaintive muse.
Synonyms
Translations
spend time idly
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