0 past simple and past participle of idle
1 If an engine or machine idles, it runs slowly but does not move or do any work:
Instead, they have sat back and idled their time away.
The additional fuel costs to compensate for its nuclear reactors being idled was 3.6 trillion.
At the present, other developers have proposed market-rate condominium skyscrapers and other high-rise towers which have idled in various stages of the planning process.
Additionally, idled acres did not earn deficiency payments, thus reducing commodity program costs.
He also gave the company's engineers, who had been idled by the company's financial crisis, deadlines for projects.
During the time in the faction, actually, they didn't do anything antisocial, they just idled away and laughed, shouted and played.
National organizers were sent in during a lockout of 1,200 idled metal-trades workers.
All engines idled ahead and the airship began to slow.
