remark
/ɹɪˈmɑɹk/ verb B1- To pay heed to; notice; to take notice of, to perceive. · I remarked a certain twang in his southern pronunciation.
- To express in words or writing; to state, as an observation. · He remarked that it was getting late.
- To make a remark or remarks on, to comment on (something).
He/she/it remarks · Past remarked · Past participle remarked · -ing form remarking
Verb forms
- Base form
- remark
- He/she/it
- remarks
- Past
- remarked
- Past participle
- remarked
- -ing form
- remarking
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“True,” replied the marquise, without wincing in the slightest degree at the tragic remembrance thus called up; “but bear in mind, if you please, that our respective parents underwent persecution and proscription from diametrically opposite principles; in proof of which I may remark, that while my family remained among the staunchest adherents of the exiled princes, your father lost no time in joining the new government; and that while the Citizen Noirtier was a Girondin, the Count Noirtier became a senator.”
“What a splendid business that last case of yours was, my dear Villefort!” remarked a third; “I mean the trial of the man for murdering his father.
“‘That’s a rather pretty eye,’” remarked the Munchkin who was watching the farmer.
“That’s why he went over so easily,” remarked the Lion.
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