idled in English

verb

1

(of a person) spend time doing nothing; be idle.

four men were idling outside the shop

synonyms: do nothing, be inactive, vegetate, take it easy, mark time, twiddle one's thumbs, kill time, languish, laze, lounge, loll, loaf, loiter, hang around, veg out, bum around, lollygag

verb

do nothing, be inactive, vegetate, take it easy, mark time, twiddle one's thumbs, kill time, languish, laze, lounge, loll, loaf, loiter, hang around, veg out, bum around, lollygag
run in neutral, run
slug, laze, stagnate
tick over

Use "idled" in a sentence

1. The car idled in the driveway.

2. Many food delivery trucks were idled along the Saudi-Qatari border.

3. 29 The machine has been idled away for several minutes to get it warm.

4. Ryan Klesko sat Wednesday, his smoldering bat idled by a sore right wrist.

5. 15 The company has reduced its workforce and indefinitely idled a number of its US plants.

6. Antonyms for Bustled include crawled, crept, creeped, poked, ambled, idled, lazed, loafed, loitered and lolled

7. Automaker said its Wentzville, Missouri, assembly plant would be idled during the weeks beginning March 29 and April 5

8. They are typically undertaken at abandoned or idled mines or other properties where there is extensive contamination.

9. What is a Brownfield? A Brownfield is an abandoned, idled, or underused industrial or commercial facility in which redevelopment is burdened by real or potential environmental contamination.* Typical businesses that leave behind such contaminated sites include:

10. ‘The limitations are Attributable to the lack of farm-level price input data.’ ‘This value increase was also Attributable to high inflation, particularly in Mexico.’ ‘These impacts were directly Attributable to the reduced output associated with the land idled under the program.’