stem
/stɛm/ verbo B1En español: arrancar, venir, proceder, dimanar
- To remove the stem from. · to stem cherries; to stem tobacco leaves
- To be caused or derived; to originate. · The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government.
- To descend in a family line.
- To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
- To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
He/she/it stems · Pasado stemmed · Participio pasado stemmed · Forma en -ing stemming
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- stem
- He/she/it
- stems
- Pasado
- stemmed
- Participio pasado
- stemmed
- Forma en -ing
- stemming
De la biblioteca
Determined to keep as far apart as possible, the one seated himself in the stem, and the other in the prow of the ship.
If no cruel hand pluck me from my stem, yet I must perish by an early doom.
It was fringed in all its length with slim young birches, white stemmed and lissom boughed; ferns and starflowers and wild lilies-of-the-valley and scarlet tufts of pigeonberries grew thickly along it; and always there was a delightful spiciness in the air and music of bird calls and the murmur and laugh of wood winds in the trees overhead.
The dews were so heavy that the fields glistened like cloth of silver and there were such heaps of rustling leaves in the hollows of many-stemmed woods to run crisply through.
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