whiled
SayWALD/wæld/
- 1Simple past and past participle of while.
We whiled away the rainy days indoors with old board games.
He whiled the slow hours away watching the fishing boats come in.
Note
One regular -ed form serves as both past tense and past participle: we whiled the evening away; we had whiled it away. Its usual home is the phrase while away, with the stretch of time as its object. Older English also let time itself be the subject, so the hours whiled, meaning they elapsed. Because while is sometimes written where wile is meant, whiled can stand in for wiled, and context tells you which verb is meant.
whiled is a form of while
while, verb: To let a stretch of time go by in a leisurely, unhurried manner. Full entry
- Spelling
- while → whiled: add -d
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