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idle
adjective
1. Avoiding work or employment; lazy: shiftless, idle youth. See Synonyms at lazy.
2. Lacking substance, value, or basis. See Synonyms at baseless, vain.
3. Not employed or busy: idle carpenters. See Synonyms at inactive.
4. Not in use or operation: idle hands.
5. Having no evident lawful means of support.
noun
1. A mechanism for regulating the speed at which an engine runs at rest: set the idle higher to keep the motor from stalling.
2. A state of idling. Used of a motor vehicle: an engine running quietly at idle.
verb
1. To cause to idle.
2. To make idle .
3. To pass in idleness.
4. To run at low power and often disconnected usually so that power is not used for useful work .
5. To move idly.
verb-intransitive
1. To move lazily and without purpose.
2. To pass time without working or while avoiding work.
3. To run at a slow speed or out of gear. Used of a motor vehicle.
verb-transitive
1. To cause (a motor, for example) to idle.
2. To make or cause to be unemployed or inactive.
3. To pass (time) without working or while avoiding work; waste: idle the afternoon away.
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idle | 5 |
Scrabble |
2 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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de | 3 |
ed | 3 |
el | 2 |
li | 2 |
id | 3 |
3 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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del | 4 |
lie | 3 |
lid | 4 |
lei | 3 |
led | 4 |
eld | 4 |
die | 4 |
4 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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idle | 5 |
diel | 5 |
deli | 5 |
deil | 5 |
lied | 5 |