roof
/ɹuːf/ verb C2- To cover or furnish with a roof.
- To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs.
- To put into prison, to bird.
- To shelter as if under a roof.
He/she/it roofs · Past roofed · Past participle roofed · -ing form roofing
Verb forms
- Base form
- roof
- He/she/it
- roofs
- Past
- roofed
- Past participle
- roofed
- -ing form
- roofing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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We live very quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads and pay our debts, if we do nothing more.
There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty looking cookstove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds.
And warmly on the roof it looks,
But Anne, with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out unheedingly across city roof and spire to that glorious dome of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth’s own optimism.
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