Antonyms for gamed

Grammar : Verb

Spell : geym

Phonetic Transcription : geɪm

Definition of gamed

Origin : Old English gamen "game, joy, fun, amusement," common Germanic (cf. Old Frisian game "joy, glee," Old Norse gaman, Old Saxon, Old High German gaman "sport, merriment," Danish gamen, Swedish gamman "merriment"), regarded as identical with Gothic gaman "participation, communion," from Proto-Germanic *ga- collective prefix + *mann "person," giving a sense of "people together."
Meaning "contest played according to rules" is first attested c.1300. Sense of "wild animals caught for sport" is late 13c.; hence fair game (1825), also gamey. Game plan is 1941, from U.S. football; game show first attested 1961.

As in lay : verb bet, wager
As in play : verb gamble, risk
As in stake : verb bet, wager
As in wager : verb bet money or something else in a gamble
As in bet : verb gamble
As in gamble : verb take a chance on winning

Example sentences :

I have gamed away the whole of my substance, and I am a broken man.
Extract from : « The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti » by David Christie Murray

And instead of teaching him, he has gamed with the lad at the rectory.
Extract from : « Richard Carvel, Complete » by Winston Churchill

Even the great Duguesclin gamed away all his property in prison.
Extract from : « The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims » by Andrew Steinmetz

A small farmer has just gamed away his harvest, valued at 3000 francs.'
Extract from : « The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims » by Andrew Steinmetz

He began his book, but still he gamed; he finished it, but the evil was still in him. '
Extract from : « The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims » by Andrew Steinmetz

He had gamed, had felt the want of money; and money was no longer indifferent to him.
Extract from : « Self-control » by Mary Brunton

He drank, he gamed, he went where temptation was, and fell into it.
Extract from : « No Defense, Complete » by Gilbert Parker

We gamed at supper like old fellows, both yesterday and today.
Extract from : « The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, Complete » by C. Suetonius Tranquillus

It is said that as a mere boy he gamed and drank and kept a mistress.
Extract from : « Lord Chatham » by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery

The oldest of us was but twenty-four, and we gamed on, as I say, until the Captain had cleared the board.
Extract from : « Rodney Stone » by Arthur Conan Doyle

Synonyms for gamed

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