best
/bɛst/ verb C2- Had best. · It's getting late. You best get on home.
Verb forms
- Base form
- best
- He/she/it
- bests
- Past
- bested
- Past participle
- bested
- -ing form
- besting
From the library
He had been thinking what was best to be done, and now he asked the Woodman to chop away the end of the tree that rested on their side of the ditch.
“I shall take the heart,” returned the Tin Woodman; “for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.”
Thereupon the Wicked Witch enchanted my axe, and when I was chopping away at my best one day, for I was anxious to get the new house and my wife as soon as possible, the axe slipped all at once and cut off my left leg.
“But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world.”
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