stem
/stɛm/ verbe C2En français : arrêter, faire le chasse-neige
- To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood). · to stem a tide
- To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
- To use a stance with the feet spread apart, bracing them in opposite directions against the two walls of a chimney or dihedral.
He/she/it stems · Prétérit stemmed · Participe passé stemmed · Forme en -ing stemming
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- stem
- He/she/it
- stems
- Prétérit
- stemmed
- Participe passé
- stemmed
- Forme en -ing
- stemming
Dans la bibliothèque
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.
Between these sickly shrubs grew a scanty supply of garlic, tomatoes, and eschalots; while, lone and solitary, like a forgotten sentinel, a tall pine raised its melancholy head in one of the corners of this unattractive spot, and displayed its flexible stem and fan-shaped summit dried and cracked by the fierce heat of the sub-tropical sun.
After the cachucha he placed a magnificent ring on the stem of a bouquet, and threw it to the charming danseuse, who, in the third act, to do honor to the gift, reappeared with it on her finger.
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