moss
/mɔs/ verb C2- To make a spectacular catch over 1 or multiple defenders. · You just got mossed!
He/she/it mosses · Past mossed · Past participle mossed · -ing form mossing
Verb forms
- Base form
- moss
- He/she/it
- mosses
- Past
- mossed
- Past participle
- mossed
- -ing form
- mossing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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See how soft the dried leaves are under your feet and how rich and green the moss is that clings to these old trees.
We have great big stones, all covered with moss, for seats, and boards from tree to tree for shelves.
He flung the fire pot on the ground, and some of the red coals lit a tuft of dried moss that flared up, as all the Council drew back in terror before the leaping flames.
Generations of monkeys had been scared into good behavior by the stories their elders told them of Kaa, the night thief, who could slip along the branches as quietly as moss grows, and steal away the strongest monkey that ever lived; of old Kaa, who could make himself look so like a dead branch or a rotten stump that the wisest were deceived, till the branch caught them.
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