nest
/nɛst/ verb C2- To build or settle into a nest.
- To settle into a home. · We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!
- To successively neatly fit inside another. · I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother.
- To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on). · There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes.
- To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
He/she/it nests · Past nested · Past participle nested · -ing form nesting
Verb forms
- Base form
- nest
- He/she/it
- nests
- Past
- nested
- Past participle
- nested
- -ing form
- nesting
From the library
He smelled around the stuffed man as if he suspected there might be a nest of rats in the straw, and he often growled in an unfriendly way at the Scarecrow.
But I must go now, for my babies are waiting in the nest for me.
A SWALLOW, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, built herself a nest in the wall of a Court of Justice and there hatched seven young birds.
A Serpent gliding past the nest from its hole in the wall ate up the young unfledged nestlings.
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