leaf
/lif/ verb C2- To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
- To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves. · The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed.
- To play a prank on someone by throwing a large clump or collection of leaves at them.
He/she/it leafs · Past leafed · Past participle leafed · -ing form leafing
Verb forms
- Base form
- leaf
- He/she/it
- leafs
- Past
- leafed
- Past participle
- leafed
- -ing form
- leafing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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In an adjoining room Andrea saw also a tolerably clean table prepared for two, two bottles of wine sealed, the one with green, the other with yellow, a supply of brandy in a decanter, and a measure of fruit in a cabbage-leaf, cleverly arranged on an earthenware plate.
A Dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water plucked a leaf and let it fall into the stream close to her.
Pocket edition of Boccaccio’s Decameron, with name of Joseph Stangerson upon the fly-leaf.
On the fly-leaf, in very faded ink, is written ‘Ex libris Guliolmi Whyte.’ I wonder who William Whyte was.
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