crown
/kɹaʊ̯n/ verb C2- To place a crown on the head of.
- To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
- To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
- To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
- To declare (someone) a winner.
- To have its head's surface appear in the vaginal opening during the birthing process. · The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had just crowned, prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives.
- To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
- To hit on the head.
He/she/it crowns · Past crowned · Past participle crowned · -ing form crowning
Verb forms
- Base form
- crown
- He/she/it
- crowns
- Past
- crowned
- Past participle
- crowned
- -ing form
- crowning
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She was dressed in green silk gauze and wore upon her flowing green locks a crown of jewels.
Well, then, see, here is a gentleman who had none of these resources at his disposal—a gentleman, only a simple magistrate, who learned more than you with all your police, and who would have saved my crown, if, like you, he had the power of directing a telegraph.” The look of the minister of police was turned with concentrated spite on Villefort, who bent his head in modest triumph.
I was too shaken to go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your advice.”
A great roofless palace crowned the hill, and the marble of the courtyards and the fountains was split, and stained with red and green, and the very cobblestones in the courtyard where the king’s elephants used to live had been thrust up and apart by grasses and young trees.
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