bold
/boʊld/ verb C2- To make (a font or some text) bold. · Please bold all these subheads.
He/she/it bolds · Past bolded · Past participle bolded · -ing form bolding
Verb forms
- Base form
- bold
- He/she/it
- bolds
- Past
- bolded
- Past participle
- bolded
- -ing form
- bolding
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Andrea, on whose arm hung one of the most consummate dandies of the Opera, was explaining to him rather cleverly, since he was obliged to be bold to appear at ease, his future projects, and the new luxuries he meant to introduce to Parisian fashions with his hundred and seventy-five thousand livres per annum.
A HUNTER, not very bold, was searching for the tracks of a Lion.
He resolved to cut it down, and taking his axe in his hand, made a bold stroke at its roots.
Had she not seen him in Derbyshire, she might have supposed him capable of coming there with no other view than what was acknowledged; but she still thought him partial to Jane, and she wavered as to the greater probability of his coming there _with_ his friend’s permission, or being bold enough to come without it.
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