apple
/ˈæpəl/ verb C2- To make (something) appear like an apple (noun sense 1.1).
- To become like an apple.
He/she/it apples · Past appled · Past participle appled · -ing form appling
Verb forms
- Base form
- apple
- He/she/it
- apples
- Past
- appled
- Past participle
- appled
- -ing form
- appling
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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There was no name on his clothing, and nothing in his pockets save an apple, some string, a shilling map of London, and a photograph.
The walls, hung not with gold and silver brocade tapestry, but with a dainty apple-blossom paper, were adorned with a few good pictures given Anne by Mrs.
However, this bottle was _not_ marked “poison,” so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off.
The apple blossoms were out and the world was fresh and young.
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