clay
/kleɪ/ verb C2- To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
- To purify using clay.
He/she/it clays · Past clayed · Past participle clayed · -ing form claying
Verb forms
- Base form
- clay
- He/she/it
- clays
- Past
- clayed
- Past participle
- clayed
- -ing form
- claying
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Yes, this self, of whom I thought so much, of whom I was so proud, who had appeared so worthless in the dungeons of the Château d’If, and whom I had succeeded in making so great, will be but a lump of clay tomorrow.
The stream brings down the clay.”
A small garden sprinkled over with a scattered eruption of sickly plants separated each of these houses from the street, and was traversed by a narrow pathway, yellowish in colour, and consisting apparently of a mixture of clay and of gravel.
I had this fellow’s stride both on the clay outside and on the dust within.
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