cupboard
/ˈkʌb.ɚd/ verb C2- To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.
He/she/it cupboards · Past cupboarded · Past participle cupboarded · -ing form cupboarding
Verb forms
- Base form
- cupboard
- He/she/it
- cupboards
- Past
- cupboarded
- Past participle
- cupboarded
- -ing form
- cupboarding
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There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty looking cookstove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds.
So she went to the cupboard and cut herself some bread, which she spread with butter.
She took a little basket and filled it with bread from the cupboard, laying a white cloth over the top.
They had scarcely begun their repast again when someone else entered to take something out of a cupboard, whereupon the two Mice, more frightened than before, ran away and hid themselves.
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