school
/skul/ verb C2- To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school). · Many future prime ministers were schooled in Eton.
- To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
- To control, or compose, one’s expression. · She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.
He/she/it schools · Past schooled · Past participle schooled · -ing form schooling
Verb forms
- Base form
- school
- He/she/it
- schools
- Past
- schooled
- Past participle
- schooled
- -ing form
- schooling
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You’re a Sunday-school scholar, and it’s not likely I’d refuse to let you go when all the other little girls are going.”
“Oh, Marilla,” she exclaimed breathlessly, “there’s going to be a Sunday-school picnic next week--in Mr.
It can’t be denied your hair is terrible red; but I knew a girl once--went to school with her, in fact--whose hair was every mite as red as yours when she was young, but when she grew up it darkened to a real handsome auburn.
“Did you ever go to school?” demanded Marilla, turning the sorrel mare down the shore road.
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