transitive. To complete (a period of time, an activity); to pass or spend (time). Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To spend, pass (time, etc.); to carry on, lead (one's life).

transitive. transferred. With out. To pass or spend (time). Cf. drive, v. 32. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To pass or spend (time, esp. a prolonged or protracted period of time). Obsolete.

To spend, consume, employ, occupy (time).

transitive. To spend or use up (a period of time) engaged in a particular activity, or while in a particular place; to occupy (time) while it passes.

transitive. To pass or spend (time); to while away (time, the days, hours, etc.). Also with away or forth. Obsolete.

To spend, part with, diminish one's store of (money, property); to spend, pass, occupy (time); to get over (a distance in travelling). Obsolete…

transitive. To take up, use up, fill (space, time, etc.); to be situated, stationed, or seated at or in, to be at or in (a place, position, etc.).

transitive. To pass through, get to the end of (a period of time, an action, experience, etc.), esp. successfully or safely; to endure, survive…

To spend (time or a period of time); = sense 11c. Obsolete.

transitive. To spend or pass (a period of time) in a certain way.

To allow (time, one's life, etc.) to pass or go by; to live or stay through (a certain period) to the end. Cf. sense 4.

transitive. To wear down, wear away, consume, spend; to pass, employ (time).

transitive. Scottish. To cause (time) to pass; to bring to an end (a period of time); to pass, spend (a period of 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 or a period of time).

transitive. To defer or postpone (something); to make (a person) wait, esp. by wasting time; to put off. Also in to drive off time: to…

To go through, pass (life, †a portion of time). Cf. Latin ducere vitam, Greek ἄγειν βίον, etc. Rarely, †To support life by (bread). †Also with forth.

Of a ship, etc.: to withstand (a gale, storm, etc.) without significant damage or dragging anchor. Also (of a person, animal, etc.): to survive (a…

to wear out, forth, of something which holds good for a limited time: To determine, expire. Obsolete.

transitive. To spend or waste (time); to while away. Cf. sense 11c.

transitive. Originally and chiefly Scottish. To pass, get through, while away (time); to waste (time). Obsolete.

To pass, get through (a period of time); to ‘kill’ time. Also, to put off, defer. Chiefly Scottish. Obsolete.

With complement. to tire out, tire to death, to tire to utter exhaustion. colloquial. to tire down, to exhaust (a hunted animal) by persistent…

transitive. To spend, pass (one's time, a period of time). Chiefly poetic. Cf. ware, v.2 b.

transitive. To pass or spend (time) in unimportant activities, esp. in order to delay or postpone action; to while away (time). Obsolete.

transitive. To occupy, fill (time, or a period of time). Obsolete.

To cause (time) to pass; to spend. rare.

figurative. To exhaust (another's patience, bounty, efforts, etc.); to wear out, spend (time) (obsolete).

Chiefly poetic. transitive. To spend or waste (a period of time). Obsolete.

transitive. To reach, or last until, the end of (a period of time). Also: to spend or use up (a period of time) in a particular way, (now) esp…

transitive. To run to the end of; to exhaust, use up. Obsolete.

transitive. To pass, go through; to spend (time). Obsolete.

transitive. To allow (a period of time) to pass by; to waste (a period of time). Obsolete.

transitive. To spend the whole of (a period of time). Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To pass, while away (time); also, to fleet it. rare.

transitive. To suffer (time) to pass by. Obsolete.

transitive. With away: to spend (time) in working, as during a legal or academic term. Obsolete.

figurative with off or out: To let go one by one.

transitive. Chiefly Scottish and Irish English (northern). To get over, get through, esp. to succeed in passing (time); to survive, make it through…

transitive. To consume or use up (resources, esp. money); to occupy or take up (time).

transitive. To cause to pass away; to carry away or convey rapidly.

transferred. To employ, occupy (time). Obsolete.

To consume or spend (time, or any portion of time), so as to bring it to an end. Said of a person, or an occupation or amusement.

intransitive. To succeed in passing (time); esp. to find occupation for (a period of time), so as to escape boredom. Cf. to get over —— 2 at…

intransitive. To while away, succeed in passing (time). Cf. to get through —— 3 at phrasal verbs 2.

transitive with various complements: To wear away or out, bring to an end, in ticking; to throw off or deliver by ticking (as a telegraph).

To occupy or furnish the means of occupying (what is vacant). †to fill the room of: to take the place of.