silver
/ˈsɪl.vɚ/ verb C2- To acquire a silvery colour.
- To cover with silver, or with a silvery metal. · to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury
- To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
- To make hoary, or white, like silver.
He/she/it silvers · Past silvered · Past participle silvered · -ing form silvering
Verb forms
- Base form
- silver
- He/she/it
- silvers
- Past
- silvered
- Past participle
- silvered
- -ing form
- silvering
From the library
This made her angrier than before, and she blew her silver whistle twice.
“Most assuredly; although I might easily have accepted it, for it was I who put into his hands the first silver he ever earned; but now M.
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.
But it seems you have come back rich, my boy,” continued the tailor, looking askance at the handful of gold and silver which Dantès had thrown on the table.
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