object
/əbˈd͡ʒɛkt/ verb B2- To disagree with or oppose something or someone; (especially in a Court of Law) to raise an objection. · I object to the proposal to build a new airport terminal.· We strongly object to sending her to jail for ten years.
He/she/it objects · Past objected · Past participle objected · -ing form objecting
Verb forms
- Base form
- object
- He/she/it
- objects
- Past
- objected
- Past participle
- objected
- -ing form
- objecting
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They waited in the hope of seeing it enter the harbor, but as the object on which they looked was driven nearer to shore by the wind, they found that it could at the most be a small boat, and not a ship.
A long series of sterile weeks lay behind us, and here at last there was a fitting object for those remarkable powers which, like all special gifts, become irksome to their owner when they are not in use.
Then suddenly he hauled something in as a fisherman lands a fish—some large, round object which obscured the light as it was dragged through the open casement.
Grief had made her blind to all but one object—that was Edmond.
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