foot
/fʊt/ verb C1- To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
- To pay (a bill).
- To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
- To walk.
- To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
- To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up. · to foot (or foot up) an account
He/she/it foots · Past footed · Past participle footed · -ing form footing
Verb forms
- Base form
- foot
- He/she/it
- foots
- Past
- footed
- Past participle
- footed
- -ing form
- footing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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_Alice’s Right Foot, Esq., Hearthrug, near the Fender,_ (_with Alice’s love_).
As she said these words her foot slipped, and in another moment, splash!
Still she went on growing, and, as a last resource, she put one arm out of the window, and one foot up the chimney, and said to herself “Now I can do no more, whatever happens.
She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could, and waited till she heard a little animal (she couldn’t guess of what sort it was) scratching and scrambling about in the chimney close above her: then, saying to herself “This is Bill,” she gave one sharp kick, and waited to see what would happen next.
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