pickle
/ˈpɪkəl/ verb C2- To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution. · We pickled the remainder of the crop.· These cucumbers pickle very well.
- To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid. · The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.
- To serialize.
- To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
He/she/it pickles · Past pickled · Past participle pickled · -ing form pickling
Verb forms
- Base form
- pickle
- He/she/it
- pickles
- Past
- pickled
- Past participle
- pickled
- -ing form
- pickling
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