breakfast
/ˈbɹeɪkˌfæst/ verb C2- To eat the morning meal. · May 14, 1689, Matthew Prior, epistle to Fleetwood Shephard Esq. First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.
- To serve breakfast to.
He/she/it breakfasts · Past breakfasted · Past participle breakfasted · -ing form breakfasting
Verb forms
- Base form
- breakfast
- He/she/it
- breakfasts
- Past
- breakfasted
- Past participle
- breakfasted
- -ing form
- breakfasting
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Sherlock Holmes had pushed away his untasted breakfast and lit the unsavoury pipe which was the companion of his deepest meditations.
He leaned upon his hand, with his untasted breakfast before him, and he stared at the slip of paper which he had just drawn from its envelope.
Caderousse set the example and attacked the breakfast with good appetite, praising each dish he set before his visitor.
A Fox heard the sound, and wishing to make a breakfast on him, came and stood under the branches, saying how earnestly he desired to make the acquaintance of the owner of so magnificent a voice.
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