shaft
/ˈʃæft/ verb C2- To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery. · Your boss really shafted you by stealing your idea like that.
- To equip with a shaft.
- To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with. · Turns out my roommate was shafting my girlfriend.
He/she/it shafts · Past shafted · Past participle shafted · -ing form shafting
Verb forms
- Base form
- shaft
- He/she/it
- shafts
- Past
- shafted
- Past participle
- shafted
- -ing form
- shafting
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Leaving this Parthian shaft to rankle in Anne’s stormy bosom, Marilla descended to the kitchen, grievously troubled in mind and vexed in soul.
The shaft into which the river hurls itself is an immense chasm, lined by glistening coal-black rock, and narrowing into a creaming, boiling pit of incalculable depth, which brims over and shoots the stream onward over its jagged lip.
It had darkened since I left, and now I could only see here and there the glistening of moisture upon the black walls, and far away down at the end of the shaft the gleam of the broken water.
A huge driving-wheel and a shaft half-filled with rubbish showed the position of an abandoned mine.
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