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pat

/pæt/ verb C2
  1. To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing. · To show affection, he decided he would pat the boy on the head.
  2. To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat · I patted the cookie dough into shape.
  3. To gently rain.

He/she/it pats · Past patted · Past participle patted · -ing form patting

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Verb forms

Base form
pat
He/she/it
pats
Past
patted
Past participle
patted
-ing form
patting

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The count patted him gently on the shoulder, his usual mode of praising Ali, who, pleased and gratified with the commission assigned him, walked calmly towards a projecting stone forming the angle of the street and house, and, seating himself thereon, began to smoke his chibouque, while Monte Cristo re-entered his dwelling, perfectly assured of the success of his plan.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 491 · C1
It will take quite six weeks to unload the cargo, and we cannot get you ready for sea until three months after that; only be back again in three months, for the Pharaon,” added the owner, patting the young sailor on the back, “cannot sail without her captain.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 9 · C1
“Is he stuffed?” asked the Lion in surprise, as he watched her pick up the Scarecrow and set him upon his feet, while she patted him into shape again.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 33 · B2
A FLEA thus questioned an Ox: “What ails you, that being so huge and strong, you submit to the wrongs you receive from men and slave for them day by day, while I, being so small a creature, mercilessly feed on their flesh and drink their blood without stint?” The Ox replied: “I do not wish to be ungrateful, for I am loved and well cared for by men, and they often pat my head and shoulders.” “Woe’s me!” said the flea; “this very patting which you like, whenever it happens to me, brings with it my inevitable destruction.”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 87 · B2

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