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to spree

6.6

To do a lot of something for a short time, often for fun or without control

verb
/spriː/

: salir de juerga

She was spreeing while shopping, buying everything that caught her eye without thinking of the cost.

Examples

The children were spreeing in the park, laughing and running around without a care in the world.
After finishing their exams, the students decided to spree at the amusement park for the whole weekend.
People were always driving their heifers down when they were spreeing and bawling along the road.

Fiction book (1991)

Antonyms

to restrain

86 4.6

Hold a person or thing so it cannot move freely

Compounds

shopping spree

24 3.4

A short time when someone buys many things quickly and spends a lot of money

spending spree

6 3.6

A short time when someone buys many things without control

spree killer

NSFW

5 9.2

A person who kills several people in a short time in different places without pausing

How Intense

to binge

12 4.5

splurge

Informal

8 6.9

to spree

6.6

to indulge

68 4.3

to dabble

45 4.8

Surface Forms

spree infinitive

spreeed past

spreeed past participle

spreeing present participle

sprees third person singular

Etymology

The verb spree keeps the same idea of a quick burst of excitement, like a sudden 'spring' into action, and may come from the same old Scottish root spreag. That's why to spree is to do something with too much enthusiasm for a short time.