belt
/ˈbɛlt/ verb C2- To fasten a belt on; to encircle with a belt. · Edgar belted himself in and turned the car's ignition.· The rotund man had difficulty belting his pants, and generally wore suspenders to avoid the issue.
- To encircle; to surround. · The small town was belted by cornfields in all directions.
- To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
- To hit with a belt. · The child was misbehaving so he was belted as punishment.
- To hit someone or something, especially forcefully; to bash. · The angry player belted the official across the face, and as a result was ejected from the game.
- To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run. · He belted that pitch over the grandstand.
- To scream or sing in a loud, strong manner. · He belted out the national anthem.
- To drink quickly, often in gulps. · He belted down a shot of whisky.
He/she/it belts · Past belted · Past participle belted · -ing form belting
Verb forms
- Base form
- belt
- He/she/it
- belts
- Past
- belted
- Past participle
- belted
- -ing form
- belting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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It was pretty interesting to imagine things about them--to imagine that perhaps the girl who sat next to you was really the daughter of a belted earl, who had been stolen away from her parents in her infancy by a cruel nurse who died before she could confess.
A bridge spanned it midway and from there to its lower end, where an amber-hued belt of sand-hills shut it in from the dark blue gulf beyond, the water was a glory of many shifting hues--the most spiritual shadings of crocus and rose and ethereal green, with other elusive tintings for which no name has ever been found.
She had discovered that a lane opened out below the apple orchard and ran up through a belt of woodland; and she had explored it to its furthest end in all its delicious vagaries of brook and bridge, fir coppice and wild cherry arch, corners thick with fern, and branching byways of maple and mountain ash.
“’Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare, “You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.” As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.”
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