harness
/ˈhɑɹ.nəs/ verb C2- To place a harness on something; to tie up or restrain. · They harnessed the horse to the post.
- To capture, control or put to use. · Imagine what might happen if it were possible to harness solar energy fully.
- To equip with armour.
He/she/it harnesses · Past harnessed · Past participle harnessed · -ing form harnessing
Verb forms
- Base form
- harness
- He/she/it
- harnesses
- Past
- harnessed
- Past participle
- harnessed
- -ing form
- harnessing
From the library
The Frenchman had been so impatient to reach the house of Thomson & French that he would not wait for the horses to be harnessed, but left word for the carriage to overtake him on the road, or to wait for him at the bankers’ door.
“Bring that beast to me, for I have a mind to harness him like a horse, and make him work.”
With Dorothy hard at work, the Witch thought she would go into the courtyard and harness the Cowardly Lion like a horse; it would amuse her, she was sure, to make him draw her chariot whenever she wished to go to drive.
“If I cannot harness you,” said the Witch to the Lion, speaking through the bars of the gate, “I can starve you.
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