Antonyms for spin out

Grammar : Verb

Spell : spin-out

Phonetic Transcription : ˈspɪnˌaʊt

Definition of spin out

Origin : 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.

As in lengthen : verb extend
As in prolong : verb extend, draw out
As in protract : verb extend, draw out
As in stretch : verb extend, elongate
As in drag out : verb extend
As in prolongate : verb lengthen
As in drag on/drag out : verb extend time of action
As in draw out : verb prolong
As in elongate : verb make longer
As in extend : verb make larger, longer

Example sentences :

The truth was just too complicated to spin out; he had no real intent to deceive.
Extract from : « Pagan Passions » by Gordon Randall Garrett

What a proper place for a philosopher to spin out the remnant of his days!
Extract from : « The Eve of the Revolution » by Carl Becker

It is not necessary, therefore, to spin out this introduction.
Extract from : « The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the first » by Count Carlo Gozzi

But the future poets will not spin out their ideas in metre at great length.
Extract from : « The Literature of Ecstasy » by Albert Mordell

Then the brown web of the seine began to spin out over the stern.
Extract from : « Poor Man's Rock » by Bertrand W. Sinclair

For dreams need not time to spin out their intolerable length.
Extract from : « A Cigarette-Maker's Romance » by F. Marion Crawford

The answer was, that she had really been trying to spin out three pages.
Extract from : « How To Do It » by Edward Everett Hale

You might care to take a spin out into the surrounding country.
Extract from : « The Valley of the Giants » by Peter B. Kyne

He was gauging the distance to the hangar door, the positions of the guards, the time it would take to spin out the combination.
Extract from : « A World is Born » by Leigh Douglass Brackett

It seems he was returning from a spin out on the Barnes road and accidentally ran his machine against you.
Extract from : « An Oregon Girl » by Alfred Ernest Rice

Synonyms for spin out

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