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apple

/ˈæpəl/ verb C2
  1. To make (something) appear like an apple (noun sense 1.1). (transitive)
  2. To become like an apple. (intransitive)

He/she/it apples · Past appled · Past participle appled · -ing form appling

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Verb forms

Base form
apple
He/she/it
apples
Past
appled
Past participle
appled
-ing form
appling

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To eat with apple-tart.
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 7 · C1
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.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 6 · B2
There were three plates laid, so that Marilla must be expecting some one home with Matthew to tea; but the dishes were everyday dishes and there was only crab-apple preserves and one kind of cake, so that the expected company could not be any particular company.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 5 · C1
The air was sweet with the breath of many apple orchards and the meadows sloped away in the distance to horizon mists of pearl and purple; while
Anne of Green Gables, p. 11 · C1

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