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dinner

/ˈdɪnɚ/ verb C2
  1. To eat a dinner. (intransitive)
  2. To provide (someone) with a dinner. (transitive)

He/she/it dinners · Past dinnered · Past participle dinnered · -ing form dinnering

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Verb forms

Base form
dinner
He/she/it
dinners
Past
dinnered
Past participle
dinnered
-ing form
dinnering

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It was opened by the farmer’s wife, and when Dorothy asked for something to eat the woman gave them all a good dinner, with three kinds of cake and four kinds of cookies, and a bowl of milk for Toto.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 139 · B2
And most people when they put a pie in the oven to warm up for dinner take it out and eat it when it gets hot instead of leaving it to be burned to a crisp.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 161 · C1
“So that what we presumed to be merely the betrothal feast turns out to be the actual wedding dinner!” said Danglars.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 27 · C1
“My grandfather was at that time the King of the Winged Monkeys which lived in the forest near Gayelette’s palace, and the old fellow loved a joke better than a good dinner.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 99 · B2

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