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angel

/ˈeɪ̯n.d͡ʒəl/ verb C2
  1. To support by donating money. (slang, transitive)

He/she/it angels · Past angeled · Past participle angeled · -ing form angeling

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Verb forms

Base form
angel
He/she/it
angels
Past
angeled
Past participle
angeled
-ing form
angeling

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Somebody was Aunt Ellen, looking like a grey-haired angel that had been left on earth by mistake.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 14 · C1
“Five minutes ago I was so miserable I was wishing I’d never been born and now I wouldn’t change places with an angel!”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 104 · C1
But I’m bringing her up and not Rachel Lynde, who’d pick faults in the Angel Gabriel himself if he lived in Avonlea.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 211 · C1
Bingley had never met with pleasanter people or prettier girls in his life; everybody had been most kind and attentive to him; there had been no formality, no stiffness; he had soon felt acquainted with all the room; and as to Miss Bennet, he could not conceive an angel more beautiful.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 17 · B2

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