prop
/pɹɑp/ verbo C1En español: apuntalar, apoyar, sostener, apear
- To support or shore up something. · Try using a phone book to prop up the table where the foot is missing.
- To play rugby in the prop position.
- To position the feet of (a person) while sitting, lying down, or reclining so that the knees are elevated at a higher level.
He/she/it props · Pasado propped · Participio pasado propped · Forma en -ing propping
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- prop
- He/she/it
- props
- Pasado
- propped
- Participio pasado
- propped
- Forma en -ing
- propping
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
De la biblioteca
“I should think I did notice them, seeing that I had to prop him up—me and Murcher between us.
She was a notable housewife; her work was always done and well done; she “ran” the Sewing Circle, helped run the Sunday-school, and was the strongest prop of the Church Aid Society and Foreign Missions Auxiliary.
With her chin propped on her hands and her eyes fixed on the blue glimpse of the Lake of Shining Waters that the west window afforded, she was far away in a gorgeous dreamland hearing and seeing nothing save her own wonderful visions.
Compelled, as they were, to await a night sufficiently dark to favor their flight, they were obliged to defer their final attempt till that auspicious moment should arrive; their greatest dread now was lest the stone through which the sentry was doomed to fall should give way before its right time, and this they had in some measure provided against by propping it up with a small beam which they had discovered in the walls through which they had worked their way.
Otras coincidencias
- prop apoyo, puntal, sostén C1
- prop To manually start the engine of a propeller-dri... C2
- prop A proposition, especially on an election-day ba... C2
- prop hélice C2
- prop atrezzo, utilería, atrezo C2
- prop A part of a plant reared for its multiplication. C2
- prop Testosterone propionate. C2
- prop up apuntalar, apear
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