rabbit
/ˈɹæbət/ verb C2- To hunt rabbits.
- To flee. · The informant seemed skittish, as if he was about to rabbit.· When the three friends heard someone behind them yell, "police, freeze!" they each rabbited in a different direction.
He/she/it rabbits · Past rabbited · Past participle rabbited · -ing form rabbiting
Verb forms
- Base form
- rabbit
- He/she/it
- rabbits
- Past
- rabbited
- Past participle
- rabbited
- -ing form
- rabbiting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
Snapping away with a camera when he ought to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures.
Now and then you might see a rabbit skipping across the road if you were quiet--which, with Anne and Diana, happened about once in a blue moon.
Oh, Diana, look, there’s a rabbit.
I almost wish I hadn’t gone down that rabbit-hole—and yet—and yet—it’s rather curious, you know, this sort of life!
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