please
/pliz/ verb B1- To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to. · Her presentation pleased the executives.· I'm pleased to see you've been behaving yourself.
- To desire; to will; to be pleased by. · Just do as you please.· He doesn't think, he just says whatever he pleases.
Plural please · He/she/it pleases · Past pleased · Past participle pleased · -ing form pleasing
Verb forms
- Base form
- please
- He/she/it
- pleases
- Past
- pleased
- Past participle
- pleased
- -ing form
- pleasing
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If you will please take away the pole I shall be greatly obliged to you.”
“True,” replied the marquise, without wincing in the slightest degree at the tragic remembrance thus called up; “but bear in mind, if you please, that our respective parents underwent persecution and proscription from diametrically opposite principles; in proof of which I may remark, that while my family remained among the staunchest adherents of the exiled princes, your father lost no time in joining the new government; and that while the Citizen Noirtier was a Girondin, the Count Noirtier became a senator.”
“My good friend,” said Franz, turning to him, while Albert continued to point his glass at every box in the theatre, “you seem determined not to approve; you are really too difficult to please.”
“Do as you please; but, first of all, pray have a servant, father.
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