long
/lɑŋ/ verb C1- To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true). · She longed for him to come back.
He/she/it longs · Past longed · Past participle longed · -ing form longing
Verb forms
- Base form
- long
- He/she/it
- longs
- Past
- longed
- Past participle
- longed
- -ing form
- longing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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After a long talk with the harbor-master, Captain Leclere left Naples greatly disturbed in mind.
His thin but wiry legs were arrayed in a pair of richly embroidered clocked stockings, evidently of English manufacture, while from his three-cornered hat depended a long streaming knot of white and blue ribbons.
He was gray also, from his long beard to his rough boots, and he looked stern and solemn, and rarely spoke.
Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.
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