shoe
/ʃu/ verb C2- To put shoes on one's own feet. · Men and women clothed and shod for the ascent.
- To put shoes on someone or something else's feet, especially to put horseshoes on a horse.
- To cover an object with a protective layer of material. · The billiard cue stick was shod in silver.
He/she/it shoes · Past shod · Past participle shod · -ing form shoeing
Verb forms
- Base form
- shoe
- He/she/it
- shoes
- Past
- shod
- Past participle
- shod
- -ing form
- shoeing
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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There, indeed, just under the corner of the great beam the house rested on, two feet were sticking out, shod in silver shoes with pointed toes.
The little girl, seeing she had lost one of her pretty shoes, grew angry, and said to the Witch, “Give me back my shoe!”
“I will not,” retorted the Witch, “for it is now my shoe, and not yours.”
“You have no right to take my shoe from me.”
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