bail
/beɪl/ verb C2- To leave or exit abruptly. · With his engine in flames, the pilot had no choice but to bail.
- To fail to meet a commitment (to a person).
He/she/it bails · Past bailed · Past participle bailed · -ing form bailing
Verb forms
- Base form
- bail
- He/she/it
- bails
- Past
- bailed
- Past participle
- bailed
- -ing form
- bailing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
In that case money is found for his bail or his defence.
But it was not you, I presume, who placed at my disposal 100,000 francs, which I spent in four or five months; it was not you who manufactured an Italian gentleman for my father; it was not you who introduced me into the world, and had me invited to a certain dinner at Auteuil, which I fancy I am eating at this moment, in company with the most distinguished people in Paris—amongst the rest with a certain procureur, whose acquaintance I did very wrong not to cultivate, for he would have been very useful to me just now;—it was not you, in fact, who bailed me for one or two millions, when the fatal discovery of my little secret took place.
Other matches
- bail Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for... C1
- bail To secure the release of an arrested person by ... C2
- bail To secure the head of a cow during milking. C2
- bail A hoop, ring or handle C2
- bail on To abandon
- bail out To secure the release of an arrested person by ...
- bail up For rocks, clay, etc. to build up around a drill.
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