snake
/sneɪk/ verb C2- To follow or move in a winding route. · The path snaked through the forest.· The river snakes through the valley.
- To clean using a plumbing snake.
- To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.
- To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
- To inform; to rat; often with out.
- To interfere with another's run or to take one's run out of turn.
He/she/it snakes · Past snaked · Past participle snaked · -ing form snaking
Verb forms
- Base form
- snake
- He/she/it
- snakes
- Past
- snaked
- Past participle
- snaked
- -ing form
- snaking
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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## The Farmer and the Snake
ONE WINTER a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold.
The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth, and resuming its natural instincts, bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound.
## The Laborer and the Snake
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