spin out

as inlengthen

as inprolong
as inprotract
as instretch
as indrag out
as inprolongate
as indrag on/drag out
as indraw out
as inelongate
as inextend

Synonyms for spin out

verb extend

Antonyms for spin out

Word Origin & History

Old English spinnan "draw out and twist fibers into thread," from Proto-Germanic *spenwanan (cf. Old Norse and Old Frisian spinna, Danish spinde, Dutch spinnen, Old High German spinnan, German spinnen, Gothic spinnan), from PIE *(s)pen- "stretch" (cf. Armenian henum "I weave;" Greek patos "garment, literally "that which is spun;" Lithuanian pinu "I plait, braid," spandau "I spin;" Middle Welsh cy-ffiniden "spider;" see span (v.)).

Sense of "to cause to turn rapidly" is from 1610s; meaning "revolve, turn around rapidly" first recorded 1660s. Meaning "attempt to influence reporters' minds after an event has taken place but before they have written about it" seems to have risen to popularity in the 1984 U.S. presidential campaign; e.g. spin doctor, first attested 1984. Spinning wheel is attested from c.1400; spinning-jenny is from 1783 (see jenny); invented by James Hargreaves c.1764-7, patented 1770.

Example Sentences for spin out

The truth was just too complicated to spin out; he had no real intent to deceive.

What a proper place for a philosopher to spin out the remnant of his days!

It is not necessary, therefore, to spin out this introduction.

But the future poets will not spin out their ideas in metre at great length.

Then the brown web of the seine began to spin out over the stern.

For dreams need not time to spin out their intolerable length.

The answer was, that she had really been trying to spin out three pages.

You might care to take a spin out into the surrounding country.

He was gauging the distance to the hangar door, the positions of the guards, the time it would take to spin out the combination.

It seems he was returning from a spin out on the Barnes road and accidentally ran his machine against you.

spin out

Synonyms for spin out

Antonyms for spin out

drag on/drag out

drag out

dragged on

dragged out

dragging on

spin out

Synonyms .css-1u0ksf7{color:#d9d9d9;}for spin out

Antonyms for spin out

More words related to spin out

.css-1unrqcp{color:inherit;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;}drag on

drag on/drag out

drag out

dragged on

dragged out

dragging on

Synonyms for spin out

drag on