staircase
/ˈstɛɹˌkeɪs/ verb C2- To modify (a signal, a graph, etc.) to reduce a smooth curve to a series of discrete steps.
- To increase one's share in a co-ownership.
He/she/it staircases · Past staircased · Past participle staircased · -ing form staircasing
Verb forms
- Base form
- staircase
- He/she/it
- staircases
- Past
- staircased
- Past participle
- staircased
- -ing form
- staircasing
From the library
We will leave Danglars struggling with the demon of hatred, and endeavoring to insinuate in the ear of the shipowner some evil suspicions against his comrade, and follow Dantès, who, after having traversed La Canebière, took the Rue de Noailles, and entering a small house, on the left of the Allées de Meilhan, rapidly ascended four flights of a dark staircase, holding the baluster with one hand, while with the other he repressed the beatings of his heart, and paused before a half-open door, from which he could see the whole of a small room.
Dantès descended the staircase, preceded by the magistrate, and followed by the soldiers.
On the staircase he met Signor Pastrini.
Gardiner, highly amused by the kind of family prejudice, to which he attributed her excessive commendation of her master, soon led again to the subject; and she dwelt with energy on his many merits, as they proceeded together up the great staircase.
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