guide
/ɡaɪd/ verb B1- To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
- To steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
- To exert control or influence over someone or something.
- To supervise the education or training of someone.
- To act as a guide.
Plural guide · He/she/it guides · Past guided · Past participle guided · -ing form guiding
Verb forms
- Base form
- guide
- He/she/it
- guides
- Past
- guided
- Past participle
- guided
- -ing form
- guiding
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The ground is very hard, you see, and there are no marks to guide us.” As he spoke two men came down the garden path, from round the angle of the house.
It is likely that the Musgrave who held the secret died in the interval, and by some oversight left this guide to his descendant without explaining the meaning of it.
The prisoner followed his guide, who led him into a room almost under ground, whose bare and reeking walls seemed as though impregnated with tears; a lamp placed on a stool illumined the apartment faintly, and showed Dantès the features of his conductor, an under-jailer, ill-clothed, and of sullen appearance.
“You people with hearts,” he said, “have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.
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