cradle
/ˈkɹeɪdəl/ verbe C2En français : bercer
- To contain in or as if in a cradle.
- To rock (a baby to sleep).
- To wrap protectively, to hold gently and protectively. · cradling the injured man’s head in her arms
- To lull or quieten, as if by rocking.
- To nurse or train in infancy.
- To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.
- To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.
- To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
He/she/it cradles · Prétérit cradled · Participe passé cradled · Forme en -ing cradling
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- Prétérit
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- Participe passé
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- Forme en -ing
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Dans la bibliothèque
After the first few whirls around, and one other time when the house tipped badly, she felt as if she were being rocked gently, like a baby in a cradle.
He was a fine, tall, slim young fellow of eighteen or twenty, with black eyes, and hair as dark as a raven’s wing; and his whole appearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger.
It was at this period I learned that the destiny which seemed subservient to every wish formed by Napoleon, had bestowed on him a son, named king of Rome even in his cradle.
She dressed her huge husband in baby clothes and pushed him into a giant wooden cradle.
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