hero
/ˈhɪɹ.oʊ/ verb C2- To act as a hero (brave person; role model; or protagonist).
- To praise or laud.
- To bring attention to; to highlight; to spotlight.
He/she/it heroes · Past heroed · Past participle heroed · -ing form heroing
Verb forms
- Base form
- hero
- He/she/it
- heroes
- Past
- heroed
- Past participle
- heroed
- -ing form
- heroing
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Therefore, tolerably secure in being able to extricate himself from his position, provided he were not rated at the unreasonable sum of 5,050,000 francs, he stretched himself on his bed, and after turning over two or three times, fell asleep with the tranquillity of the hero whose life Luigi Vampa was studying.
“To give you pleasure, my sweet Renée, I promise to show all the lenity in my power; but if the charges brought against this Bonapartist hero prove correct, why, then, you really must give me leave to order his head to be cut off.”
The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.
Since, the evening before, he had really been the hero of one of the tales of the Thousand and One Nights, and he was irresistibly attracted towards the grotto.
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