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Antonyms for gambled

Grammar : Verb
Spell : gam-buhl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈgæm bəl

Definition of gambled

Origin :
  • 1726 (implied in gambling), from a dialectal survival of Middle English gammlen, variant of gamenen "to play, jest, be merry," from Old English gamenian "to play, joke, pun," from gamen (see game). Or possibly gamble is from a derivative of gamel "to play games" (1590s), itself likely a frequentative from game. Originally regarded as a slang word. The intrusive -b- may be from confusion with gambol. Related: Gambled; gambling.
  • verb take a chance on winning
Example sentences :
  • The wages of the miners are too often gambled away or wasted in liquor.
  • Extract from : « Aztec Land » by Maturin M. Ballou
  • They gambled at monte, quien con, and other games of chance.
  • Extract from : « When the West Was Young » by Frederick R. Bechdolt
  • You don't think that when I said he gambled I thought the worse of him.
  • Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. » by Charles James Lever
  • How much more effective to assert that he had visited the tables and not gambled!
  • Extract from : « A Great Man » by Arnold Bennett
  • He had gambled, yes; but it was for her sake he had gambled; he had lost, yes, but it was she he had lost.
  • Extract from : « Peak and Prairie » by Anna Fuller
  • I gambled the momentum of the initial enthusiasm would carry it.
  • Extract from : « Question of Comfort » by Les Collins
  • I gambled for money with which to bury him, and a man died that night and another was hurt.
  • Extract from : « Riders of the Silences » by John Frederick
  • They drank and gambled; they said all young fellows did it, and they laughed at me when I objected.
  • Extract from : « We Ten » by Lyda Farrington Kraus
  • He was a spendthrift, he was an adulterer, he gambled, he equivocated.
  • Extract from : « Short Studies on Great Subjects » by James Anthony Froude
  • Tom sold Heralds, gambled for cents, and shared with me, and we got along.
  • Extract from : « An Outcast » by F. Colburn Adams

Synonyms for gambled

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