tissue
/ˈtɪʃ.(j)u/ verb C2- To form tissue of; to interweave.
- To have the contents of an injection or intravenous drip leak into the tissue as a result of a ruptured or punctured vein.
He/she/it tissues · Past tissued · Past participle tissued · -ing form tissuing
Verb forms
- Base form
- tissue
- He/she/it
- tissues
- Past
- tissued
- Past participle
- tissued
- -ing form
- tissuing
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But Anne, with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out unheedingly across city roof and spire to that glorious dome of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth’s own optimism.
I made you one of the new bookmarkers out of red tissue paper.
We are going to decorate the hall with creeping spruce and fir mottoes with pink tissue-paper roses in them.
“The proofs, the proofs!” said the president; “remember this tissue of horrors must be supported by the clearest proofs.”
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