verse
/ˈvɝs/ verb C2- To tell in verse, or poetry.
- to educate about, to teach about. · He versed us in the finer points of category theory.
He/she/it verses · Past versed · Past participle versed · -ing form versing
Verb forms
- Base form
- verse
- He/she/it
- verses
- Past
- versed
- Past participle
- versed
- -ing form
- versing
From the library
While the Duchess sang the second verse of the song, she kept tossing the baby violently up and down, and the poor little thing howled so, that Alice could hardly hear the words:—
“Well, I’d hardly finished the first verse,” said the Hatter, “when the Queen jumped up and bawled out, ‘He’s murdering the time!
“Go on with the next verse.”
“Go on with the next verse,” the Gryphon repeated impatiently: “it begins ‘_I passed by his garden_.’”
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