circumstance
/ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/ verb C2- To place in a particular situation, especially with regard to money or other resources.
He/she/it circumstances · Past circumstanced · Past participle circumstanced · -ing form circumstancing
Verb forms
- Base form
- circumstance
- He/she/it
- circumstances
- Past
- circumstanced
- Past participle
- circumstanced
- -ing form
- circumstancing
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“Why, you know I told you,” replied Danglars, “that I considered the circumstance of his having anchored at the Island of Elba as a very suspicious circumstance.”
“So serious, sire, that when the circumstance surprised me in the midst of a family festival, on the very day of my betrothal, I left my bride and friends, postponing everything, that I might hasten to lay at your majesty’s feet the fears which impressed me, and the assurance of my devotion.”
Is there no circumstance on which this whole case appears to hinge?
His eager face still wore that expression of intense and high-strung energy, which showed me that some novel and suggestive circumstance had opened up a stimulating line of thought.
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