rhyme
/ɹaɪm/ verb B2- To compose or treat in verse; versify.
- To place (a word or words) in such a way as to produce a rhyme or an approximation thereof.
- Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end. · Creation rhymes with integration and station.· India and windier rhyme with each other in non-rhotic accents.
- To be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each. · Mug and rug rhyme.
- To contain words that are pronounced identically to each other from the vowel in the stressed syllable to the end. · I rewrote the story to make it rhyme.
- To somewhat resemble or correspond with.
He/she/it rhymes · Past rhymed · Past participle rhymed · -ing form rhyming
Verb forms
- Base form
- rhyme
- He/she/it
- rhymes
- Past
- rhymed
- Past participle
- rhymed
- -ing form
- rhyming
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Some day soon this rhyming volume, if you learn with proper speed,
Phillips, who had been writing some verses “To Priscilla” before he called the class, was thinking about an obstinate rhyme still and never missed her.
Amongst us a simpleton, possessed by the demon of hate or cupidity, who has an enemy to destroy, or some near relation to dispose of, goes straight to the grocer’s or druggist’s, gives a false name, which leads more easily to his detection than his real one, and under the pretext that the rats prevent him from sleeping, purchases five or six grammes of arsenic—if he is really a cunning fellow, he goes to five or six different druggists or grocers, and thereby becomes only five or six times more easily traced;—then, when he has acquired his specific, he administers duly to his enemy, or near kinsman, a dose of arsenic which would make a mammoth or mastodon burst, and which, without rhyme or reason, makes his victim utter groans which alarm the entire neighborhood.
The translator might need to change the names of characters or alter the plot slightly just to preserve a crucial rhyming scheme.
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