Buy Definition
- To be killed.
- To die, especially suddenly or violently.
- To increase the time available for a specific purpose:
- to buy a share of or shares in
- to buy back (an item) at an auction by a final, high bid when the other bids are much too low
Origin of Buy
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From Middle English byen, biggen, buggen, from Old English bycġan (“to buy, pay for, acquire, redeem, ransom, procure, get done, sell”), from Proto-Germanic *bugjaną (“to buy”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bhūgh- (“to bend”), or from Proto-Indo-European *bheugh- (“to take away, deliver”). Cognate with Scots by (“to buy, purchase”), Old Saxon buggian, buggean (“to buy”), Old Norse byggja (“to procure a wife, lend at interest, let out”), Gothic (bugjan, “to buy”).
From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old English bycgan
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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