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messenger

/ˈmɛs.ən.d͡ʒɚ/ verb C2
  1. To send something by messenger. (transitive)

He/she/it messengers · Past messengered · Past participle messengered · -ing form messengering

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Verb forms

Base form
messenger
He/she/it
messengers
Past
messengered
Past participle
messengered
-ing form
messengering

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This second signature explained everything to Franz, who now understood the objection of the messenger to coming up into the apartment; the street was safer for him.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 394 · C1
The Bowman immediately shot out an arrow and said to the Lion: “I send thee my messenger, that from him thou mayest learn what I myself shall be when I assail thee.” The wounded Lion rushed away in great fear, and when a Fox who had seen it all happen told him to be of good courage and not to back off at the first attack he replied: “You counsel me in vain; for if he sends so fearful a messenger, how shall I abide the attack of the man himself?”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 59 · B2
Close at the heels of his messenger came Cecil Barker, our friend of the moated Manor House.
The Valley of Fear, p. 100 · C1
de Blacas, “will go and find my messenger.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 93 · C1

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