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- verb transitive, archaic To
swallow down;gobble up .
Etymologies
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From Middle Dutch verslinden, from Old Dutch *farslindan (“to devour”), from Proto-Germanic *farslendanan, *fraslendanan (“to devour”), equivalent to for- + Proto-Germanic *slendanan (“to devour”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to sneak, creep”). Cognate with Dutch verslinden ("to devour"), Middle Low German vorslinden ("to devour, eat up"), German verschlinden, verschlingen ("to devour, swallow up"), Gothic (fraslindan, "to gobble, swallow, devour").
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