rocket
/ˈɹɑk.ɪt/ verb C2- To accelerate swiftly and powerfully.
- To fly vertically.
- To rise or soar rapidly.
- To experience sudden fame, popularity, or success. · After spending years in obscurity, the band finally rocketed last week.
- To carry something in a rocket.
- To attack something with rockets.
He/she/it rockets · Past rocketed · Past participle rocketed · -ing form rocketing
Verb forms
- Base form
- rocket
- He/she/it
- rockets
- Past
- rocketed
- Past participle
- rocketed
- -ing form
- rocketing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
Anne flew up like a rocket.
_Then join our leaping lines that scumfish through the pines, That rocket by where, light and high, the wild grape swings.
Last came a little feeble, squeaking voice, (“That’s Bill,” thought Alice,) “Well, I hardly know—No more, thank ye; I’m better now—but I’m a deal too flustered to tell you—all I know is, something comes at me like a Jack-in-the-box, and up I goes like a sky-rocket!”
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