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picnic

/ˈpɪknɪk/ verb C2
  1. To take part in a picnic. (intransitive)

He/she/it picnics · Past picnicked · Past participle picnicked · -ing form picnicking

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Verb forms

Base form
picnic
He/she/it
picnics
Past
picnicked
Past participle
picnicked
-ing form
picnicking

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There grief might freely expend itself without being disturbed by the trifling loungers who came from a picnic party to visit Père-Lachaise, or by lovers who make it their rendezvous.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 755 · C1
Ruby Gillis is going to have a birthday party soon and there’s the Sunday-school picnic and the missionary concert next month.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 255 · C1
But when Anne had gone Diana dried her tears and went to a beach picnic at White Sands with some of her Carmody cousins, where she contrived to enjoy herself tolerably well; while Marilla plunged fiercely into unnecessary work and kept at it all day long with the bitterest kind of heartache--the ache that burns and gnaws and cannot wash itself away in ready tears.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 290 · C1
And I’ve closed the wood where the Fernworthy folk used to picnic.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 149 · C1

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