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Christmas

/ˈkɹɪsməs/ verb C2
  1. To decorate (a place) with Christmas (“sprigs of holly and other evergreen plants used as Christmas decorations, or any Christmas decorations”). (US, informal, transitive)
  2. To celebrate Christmas. (US, intransitive)
  3. To spend Christmas or the Christmas season in some place. (US, intransitive)
  4. To subject to Christmas celebrations. (US, colloquial)

He/she/it Christmases · Past Christmased · Past participle Christmased · -ing form Christmasing

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Verb forms

Base form
christmas
He/she/it
christmases
Past
christmased
Past participle
christmased
-ing form
christmasing

From the library

Let me see: I’ll give them a new pair of boots every Christmas.”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 8 · B2
Alexander Spencer was up here one day before Christmas and she said she was going to get a little girl from the asylum over in Hopeton in the spring.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 7 · C1
This was that the scholars of Avonlea school should get up a concert and hold it in the hall on Christmas Night, for the laudable purpose of helping to pay for a schoolhouse flag.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 183 · C1
Christmas was only a fortnight off.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 188 · C1

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