marvel
/ˈmɑɹvəl/ verb C1- To become filled with wonderment or admiration; to be amazed at something.
He/she/it marvels · Past marveled · Past participle marveled · -ing form marveling
Verb forms
- Base form
- marvel
- He/she/it
- marvels
- Past
- marveled
- Past participle
- marveled
- -ing form
- marveling
From the library
As I looked from their windows at the interminable granite-flecked moor rolling unbroken to the farthest horizon I could not but marvel at what could have brought this highly educated man and this beautiful woman to live in such a place.
He pulled up his horse, and with great glee joined in the joke by saying, “What a marvel it is that hairs which are not mine should fly from me, when they have forsaken even the man on whose head they grew.”
Taking it up, the man returned to the same place, to find that the wall under which he had been sitting had fallen to pieces; and he marveled at the service rendered him by the Eagle.
As for your tongue, it’s a marvel it’s not clean worn out.”
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