thorn
/θoɹn/ verb C2- To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn (sharp pointed object).
He/she/it thorns · Past thorned · Past participle thorned · -ing form thorning
Verb forms
- Base form
- thorn
- He/she/it
- thorns
- Past
- thorned
- Past participle
- thorned
- -ing form
- thorning
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I have obeyed the Law of the Jungle, and there is no wolf of ours from whose paws I have not pulled a thorn.
“This is a splendid hunting-ground,” he said, and his tail grew bottle-brushy at the thought of it, and he scuttled up and down the garden, snuffing here and there till he heard very sorrowful voices in a thorn-bush.
“Wicked, wicked Darzee!” said Nag, lashing up as high as he could reach toward the nest in the thorn-bush.
She headed straight for the long grass by the thorn-bush, and as he was running Rikki-tikki heard Darzee still singing his foolish little song of triumph.
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