terrace
/ˈtɛɹəs/ verb C2- To provide something with a terrace.
- To form something into a terrace.
He/she/it terraces · Past terraced · Past participle terraced · -ing form terracing
Verb forms
- Base form
- terrace
- He/she/it
- terraces
- Past
- terraced
- Past participle
- terraced
- -ing form
- terracing
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He set his teeth and said nothing, but went with the shouting monkeys to a terrace above the red sandstone reservoirs that were half-full of rain water.
There was a ruined summer-house of white marble in the center of the terrace, built for queens dead a hundred years ago.
Mowgli made no objection, and the monkeys gathered by hundreds and hundreds on the terrace to listen to their own speakers singing the praises of the Bandar-log, and whenever a speaker stopped for want of breath they would all shout together: “This is true; we all say so.
When that cloud covers the moon I shall go to the terrace.
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