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Definition of Spin out
1. Verb. Prolong or extend. "Spin out a visit"
Definition of Spin out
1. Verb. (intransitive idiomatic) to prolong, make longer (in time) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spin Out
Literary usage of Spin out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Political and Literary Anecdotes of His Own Times by William King (1818)
"... four or five short sentences, a modern dedicator would easily spin out into
forty or fifty pages ?. I have often wondered how the custom of writing long ..."
2. The History of England, from the Earliest Period, to the Close of the Year by John Bigland (1813)
"In this dilemma, the best expedient that he could devise was to spin out the
business in a long negociation, in the hope that a change in the king's mind, ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Preparation, provident measures or slept, provident c.ire, arrangement. 4.
Proviso, stipulation, clause, condition, previous agreement. (in timt)^ spin out. ..."
4. Dizionario delle lingue italiana ed ingleseby Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti by Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti (1807)
"TI spin out the time, prolongan-, ... To spin out the. war, far spins, la trottola
dorme.—Ttie blood spins out of his ..."
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