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sparble en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English sparplen, from Anglo-Norman esparpeler (compare Old French esparpeillier).

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) to scatter, disperse
    • but after longe fyght, the vyctory fell vnto the erle of Salesbury, and the other lordys vpon his partye, and the kinges hoost was sparbled and chasyd, and many of his noble men slayne c. 1509, Robert Fabyan, The New Chronicles of England and France, reprinted 1811 by Henry Ellis, page 636

Forms

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sparbled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
sparbled Tense=Past lexicographic
sparbling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
sparbles Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic