cream
/kɹim/ verb C2- To puree, to blend with a liquifying process. · Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.
- To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream.
- To obliterate, to defeat decisively. · We creamed the opposing team!
- To ejaculate or become wet (used of either gender).
- To be very enthusiastic about or attracted to something (used especially of women).
- To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
- To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
- To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
He/she/it creams · Past creamed · Past participle creamed · -ing form creaming
Verb forms
- Base form
- cream
- He/she/it
- creams
- Past
- creamed
- Past participle
- creamed
- -ing form
- creaming
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Mithridates, rex Ponticus,” said the young scamp, as he tore some beautiful portraits out of a splendid album, “the individual who took cream in his cup of poison every morning at breakfast.”
“I just wish I was a rich American and could spend my summer at a hotel and wear jewels and low-necked dresses and have ice cream and chicken salad every blessed day.
The shaft into which the river hurls itself is an immense chasm, lined by glistening coal-black rock, and narrowing into a creaming, boiling pit of incalculable depth, which brims over and shoots the stream onward over its jagged lip.
“Oh, that I do, and with infinite pleasure,” answered Albert; “and so much the more readily as a letter received this morning from my father summons me to Paris, in consequence of a treaty of marriage (my dear Franz, do not smile, I beg of you) with a family of high standing, and connected with the very cream of Parisian society.”
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