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web

/wɛb/ verb C2
  1. To construct or form a web. (intransitive)
  2. To cover with a web or network. (transitive)
  3. To ensnare or entangle. (transitive)
  4. To provide with a web. (transitive)

He/she/it webs · Past webbed · Past participle webbed · -ing form webbing

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Verb forms

Base form
web
He/she/it
webs
Past
webbed
Past participle
webbed
-ing form
webbing

From the library

He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 105 · B2
Of course I have other reasons for thinking so—dozens of exiguous threads which lead vaguely up towards the centre of the web where the poisonous, motionless creature is lurking.
The Valley of Fear, p. 15 · C1
Often it was only the smallest trace, Watson, the faintest indication, and yet it was enough to tell me that the great malignant brain was there, as the gentlest tremors of the edges of the web remind one of the foul spider which lurks in the centre.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 33 · C1
It would not rest him to lie down, and he could not close his eyes; so he remained all night staring at a little spider which was weaving its web in a corner of the room, just as if it were not one of the most wonderful rooms in the world.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 66 · B2

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