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crab

/kɹæb/ verbo C2

En español: pescar cangrejos, quejarse, arruinar

  1. To fish for crabs. (intransitive)
  2. To ruin. (US, slang, transitive)
  3. To complain. (intransitive)
  4. To complain about. (transitive)
  5. To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab). (intransitive)
  6. To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
  7. To move (a camera) sideways. (transitive)
  8. To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course. (transitive)

He/she/it crabs · Pasado crabbed · Participio pasado crabbed · Forma en -ing crabbing

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Formas del verbo

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He/she/it
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Pasado
crabbed
Participio pasado
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Forma en -ing
crabbing

De la biblioteca

“What a pity it wouldn’t stay!” sighed the Lory, as soon as it was quite out of sight; and an old Crab took the opportunity of saying to her daughter “Ah, my dear!
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 20 · B2
Let this be a lesson to you never to lose _your_ temper!” “Hold your tongue, Ma!” said the young Crab, a little snappishly.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 20 · B2
He was an old crab, _he_ was.”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 74 · B2
There were three plates laid, so that Marilla must be expecting some one home with Matthew to tea; but the dishes were everyday dishes and there was only crab-apple preserves and one kind of cake, so that the expected company could not be any particular company.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 5 · C1

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