tide
/taɪd/ verb C2- To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
- To carry over or through a problem or difficulty.
- To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
He/she/it tides · Past tided · Past participle tided · -ing form tiding
Verb forms
- Base form
- tide
- He/she/it
- tides
- Past
- tided
- Past participle
- tided
- -ing form
- tiding
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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The roadway was blocked with the immense stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of pedestrians.
But, when the tide rises and sharks are around,
Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend.
Conjecture soon became certainty, for the figure of a man was distinctly visible to Franz, gradually emerging from the staircase opposite, upon which the moon was at that moment pouring a full tide of silvery brightness.
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