harbor
/ˈhɑɹbɚ/ verb C1- To provide a harbor or safe place for. · The docks, which once harbored tall ships, now harbor only petty thieves.
- To take refuge or shelter in a protected expanse of water. · The fleet harbored in the south.
- To drive (a hunted stag) to covert.
- To hold or persistently entertain in one's thoughts or mind. · She harbors a conviction that her husband has a secret, criminal past.
He/she/it harbors · Past harbored · Past participle harbored · -ing form harboring
Verb forms
- Base form
- harbor
- He/she/it
- harbors
- Past
- harbored
- Past participle
- harbored
- -ing form
- harboring
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In an instant they found themselves in a little harbor, formed in a natural creek; the boat grounded on the fine sand.
They waited in the hope of seeing it enter the harbor, but as the object on which they looked was driven nearer to shore by the wind, they found that it could at the most be a small boat, and not a ship.
The Dolphin then inquired if he knew the Piræus (the famous harbor of Athens).
A PEASANT had in his garden an Apple-Tree which bore no fruit but only served as a harbor for the sparrows and grasshoppers.
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