vein
/veɪn/ verb C2- To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.
He/she/it veins · Past veined · Past participle veined · -ing form veining
Verb forms
- Base form
- vein
- He/she/it
- veins
- Past
- veined
- Past participle
- veined
- -ing form
- veining
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“You are developing a certain unexpected vein of pawky humour, Watson, against which I must learn to guard myself.
He had spoken in jesting vein, but the twitching of his bushy eyebrows bespoke his disappointment and irritation.
A red-veined nose jutted out like a vulture's beak, and two fierce grey eyes glared at me from under tufted brows.
His voice had become rough and hoarse; his face was furrowed with wrinkles; his eyes burned under the blue-veined lids, and he tottered like a drunken man.
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