bark
/bɑɹk/ verb C2- To strip the bark from; to peel.
- To abrade or rub off any outer covering from. · I barked my shins climbing the fence.
- To girdle.
- To cover or enclose with bark, or as with bark. · to bark the roof of a hut
He/she/it barks · Past barked · Past participle barked · -ing form barking
Verb forms
- Base form
- bark
- He/she/it
- barks
- Past
- barked
- Past participle
- barked
- -ing form
- barking
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It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very neatly and simply arranged; the only difficulty was, that she had not the smallest idea how to set about it; and while she was peering about anxiously among the trees, a little sharp bark just over her head made her look up in a great hurry.
This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape; so she set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out of breath, and till the puppy’s bark sounded quite faint in the distance.
“This thing will die if I do not give it things to eat”; and he dropped twigs and dried bark on the red stuff.
Bagheera climbed as he had never climbed before, but the thin branches broke beneath his weight, and he slipped down, his claws full of bark.
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