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
From the library
Then followed the Knave of Hearts, carrying the King’s crown on a crimson velvet cushion; and, last of all this grand procession, came THE KING AND QUEEN OF HEARTS.
The judge, by the way, was the King; and as he wore his crown over the wig, (look at the frontispiece if you want to see how he did it,) he did not look at all comfortable, and it was certainly not becoming.
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.
But the sleeves--they were the crowning glory!
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