collar
/ˈkɑlɚ/ verb C2- To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
- To place a collar on, to fit with one. · Collar and leash aggressive dogs.
- To surround or encircle.
- To seize, capture or detain.
- To steal.
- To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
- To arrest.
- To bind in conversation. · I managed to collar Fred in the office for an hour.
He/she/it collars · Past collared · Past participle collared · -ing form collaring
Verb forms
- Base form
- collar
- He/she/it
- collars
- Past
- collared
- Past participle
- collared
- -ing form
- collaring
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Collar that Dormouse,” the Queen shrieked out.
About twenty minutes he waited, and then a tall man in a long overcoat, with collar turned up to his ears, hurried across from the opposite side of the street.
“There is no one in the jungle that knows that I, Bagheera, carry that mark--the mark of the collar; and yet, Little Brother, I was born among men, and it was among men that my mother died--in the cages of the king’s palace at Oodeypore.
Rikki-tikki looked down between the boy’s collar and neck, snuffed at his ear, and climbed down to the floor, where he sat rubbing his nose.
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