defer
/dɪˈfɝ/ verbo C2En español: deferir
- To submit to the opinion or desire of others in respect to their judgment or authority.
- To render, to offer.
He/she/it defers · Pasado deferred · Participio pasado deferred · Forma en -ing deferring
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- defer
- He/she/it
- defers
- Pasado
- deferred
- Participio pasado
- deferred
- Forma en -ing
- deferring
Un verbo irregular: apréndete de memoria su pasado y su participio pasado.
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Compelled, as they were, to await a night sufficiently dark to favor their flight, they were obliged to defer their final attempt till that auspicious moment should arrive; their greatest dread now was lest the stone through which the sentry was doomed to fall should give way before its right time, and this they had in some measure provided against by propping it up with a small beam which they had discovered in the walls through which they had worked their way.
Dantès remained in his cell all day, not daring to return to his friend, thinking thus to defer the moment when he should be convinced, once for all, that the abbé was mad—such a conviction would be so terrible!
“Will you give me leave to defer your raptures till I write again?
If you and Miss Bennet will defer yours till I am out of the room, I shall be very thankful; and then you may say whatever you like of me.”
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