Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To sprinkle; to scatter.

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Examples

  • Man sprenge, mit einem Hölzgen, so man überziehen will, um durch diesen zarten Nebel, den man oft macht, alle Stellen zu bethauen, und die Blume, oder das Insect, an allen seinen Theilen damit zu treffen.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Throw hamlettes wee wylle sprenge sadde dethe & dole,

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • Manchester United-manager Sir Alex Ferguson ser ikke ut til å sprenge banken i sommer.

    VG RSS 2010

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