"while away" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "whiles away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whiling away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whiled away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whiled away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "while away (third-person singular simple present whiles away, present participle whiling away, simple past and past participle whiled away)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We whiled away the hours playing cards.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To spend (time) idly but pleasantly"
      ],
      "id": "en-while_away-en-verb-tqF8J2nr",
      "links": [
        [
          "spend",
          "spend"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ],
        [
          "idly",
          "idly"
        ],
        [
          "pleasantly",
          "pleasantly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To spend (time) idly but pleasantly"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "77 23",
          "word": "kill"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "xiāomó",
          "sense": "spend (time) idly",
          "word": "消磨"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "spend (time) idly",
          "word": "vertrödeln"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "spend (time) idly",
          "word": "vertreiben"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "spend (time) idly",
          "tags": [
            "colloquial"
          ],
          "word": "totschlagen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "pernó",
          "sense": "spend (time) idly",
          "word": "περνώ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "spend (time) idly",
          "word": "meil"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "korotátʹ",
          "sense": "spend (time) idly",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "корота́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "skorotátʹ",
          "sense": "spend (time) idly",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "скорота́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "spend (time) idly",
          "word": "fördriva"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "9 91",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 84",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (away)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Lori Davis, Second Wind, page 65",
          "text": "The rest of the night hours whiled away for the prisoners as few slept.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Hank Carver, House of Cards: Five Full Contact Years as a Las Vegas Nightclub Bouncer",
          "text": "The hours whiled away and I steadily kept drinking, even though it had been years since I'd done any serious imbibing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Kester James Finley, Twisted Reunions (The Keeper Chronicles, Book 2)",
          "text": "As the hours whiled away, they discussed everything magical they had learned and how Odele had managed to become a Keeper and survive a full year without help or interference.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To elapse, to pass."
      ],
      "id": "en-while_away-en-verb-nwW~~M7N",
      "links": [
        [
          "elapse",
          "elapse"
        ],
        [
          "pass",
          "pass"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To elapse, to pass."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "while away"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (away)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "whiles away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whiling away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whiled away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whiled away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "while away (third-person singular simple present whiles away, present participle whiling away, simple past and past participle whiled away)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We whiled away the hours playing cards.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To spend (time) idly but pleasantly"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "spend",
          "spend"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ],
        [
          "idly",
          "idly"
        ],
        [
          "pleasantly",
          "pleasantly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To spend (time) idly but pleasantly"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Lori Davis, Second Wind, page 65",
          "text": "The rest of the night hours whiled away for the prisoners as few slept.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Hank Carver, House of Cards: Five Full Contact Years as a Las Vegas Nightclub Bouncer",
          "text": "The hours whiled away and I steadily kept drinking, even though it had been years since I'd done any serious imbibing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Kester James Finley, Twisted Reunions (The Keeper Chronicles, Book 2)",
          "text": "As the hours whiled away, they discussed everything magical they had learned and how Odele had managed to become a Keeper and survive a full year without help or interference.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To elapse, to pass."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "elapse",
          "elapse"
        ],
        [
          "pass",
          "pass"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To elapse, to pass."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "kill"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiāomó",
      "sense": "spend (time) idly",
      "word": "消磨"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "spend (time) idly",
      "word": "vertrödeln"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "spend (time) idly",
      "word": "vertreiben"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "spend (time) idly",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "totschlagen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "pernó",
      "sense": "spend (time) idly",
      "word": "περνώ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "spend (time) idly",
      "word": "meil"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "korotátʹ",
      "sense": "spend (time) idly",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "корота́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "skorotátʹ",
      "sense": "spend (time) idly",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "скорота́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "spend (time) idly",
      "word": "fördriva"
    }
  ],
  "word": "while away"
}