tone
/ˈtoʊn/ verb C1- to give a particular tone to
- to change the colour of
- to make (something) firmer
- to utter with an affected tone.
He/she/it tones · Past toned · Past participle toned · -ing form toning
Verb forms
- Base form
- tone
- He/she/it
- tones
- Past
- toned
- Past participle
- toned
- -ing form
- toning
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“As wet as ever,” said Alice in a melancholy tone: “it doesn’t seem to dry me at all.”
“What I was going to say,” said the Dodo in an offended tone, “was, that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.”
“I wish I hadn’t mentioned Dinah!” she said to herself in a melancholy tone.
Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she went hunting about, and called out to her in an angry tone, “Why, Mary Ann, what _are_ you doing out here?
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