season
verb C2- To habituate, accustom, or inure (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance. · to season oneself to a climate
- To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices. · The timber needs to be seasoned.
- To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
- To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance. · The wood has seasoned in the sun.
- To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture.
He/she/it seasons · Past seasoned · Past participle seasoned · -ing form seasoning
Verb forms
- Base form
- season
- He/she/it
- seasons
- Past
- seasoned
- Past participle
- seasoned
- -ing form
- seasoning
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His brief season of elegant luxury would be doubly enjoyable if he could add to it a lady’s society.
It was neither the season nor the hour when the Park had frequenters; and it is likely that the young lady, who was seated on one of the benches at the side of the walk, had merely obeyed a sudden impulse to sit for a while and enjoy a foretaste of coming Spring.
Kirke runs it, but the season hasn’t begun yet.
GET there they did, however, in due season.
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