reserve
/ɹɪˈzɝv/ verb B1- To keep back; to retain. · We reserve the right to make modifications.· I will reserve judgment until I have actually read his book.
- To keep in store for future or special use. · This cake is reserved for the guests!· Please reserve me a parking space if you can.
- To book in advance; to make a reservation for. · I reserved a table for us at the best restaurant in town.· Thanks for reserving us a room!
He/she/it reserves · Past reserved · Past participle reserved · -ing form reserving
Verb forms
- Base form
- reserve
- He/she/it
- reserves
- Past
- reserved
- Past participle
- reserved
- -ing form
- reserving
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The end of life was reserved for the Dog, wherefore the old man is often snappish, irritable, hard to please, and selfish, tolerant only of his own household, but averse to strangers and to all who do not administer to his comfort or to his necessities.
Yet, though looked at with some curiosity and reserve by his more cultivated neighbours, he soon acquired a great popularity among the villagers, subscribing handsomely to all local objects, and attending their smoking concerts and other functions, where, having a remarkably rich tenor voice, he was always ready to oblige with an excellent song.
Though reserved in its earlier vocabulary, it becomes, if I remember right, quite garrulous towards the end.” He picked the volume from his desk.
She entered now, a tall and beautiful woman of thirty, reserved and self-possessed to a remarkable degree, very different from the tragic and distracted figure I had pictured.
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