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
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The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.
Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a moment: she looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her was another long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down it.
There was not a moment to be lost: away went Alice like the wind, and was just in time to hear it say, as it turned a corner, “Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it’s getting!” She was close behind it when she turned the corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen: she found herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging from the roof.
It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other: he came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, “Oh!
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