game
verb/ɡeɪm/
/ɡeɪm/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they game | /ɡeɪm/ /ɡeɪm/ |
| present simple I / you / we / they games | /ɡeɪmz/ /ɡeɪmz/ |
| past simple gamed | /ɡeɪmd/ /ɡeɪmd/ |
| past participle gamed | /ɡeɪmd/ /ɡeɪmd/ |
| past participle gaming | /ˈɡeɪmɪŋ/ /ˈɡeɪmɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] to risk money playing a game of chance
- [intransitive] to play video games
- [transitive] game something to use something in a way that is unfair but legal, in order to get what you want
- Some companies only received a government grant because they gamed the system.
- The government finance programme is being gamed by some high-profile banks.
- [transitive] game somebody to treat somebody who trusts you in an unfair way in order to get what you want
- He gamed his publishers, his family and his friends in order to make a success of his autobiography.
Word OriginOld English gamen ‘amusement, fun’, gamenian ‘play, amuse oneself’, of Germanic origin.
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