course
/kɔɹs/ verb C2- To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood). · The oil coursed through the engine.· Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries.
- To run through or over.
- To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
- To cause to chase after or pursue game. · to course greyhounds after deer
He/she/it courses · Past coursed · Past participle coursed · -ing form coursing
Verb forms
- Base form
- course
- He/she/it
- courses
- Past
- coursed
- Past participle
- coursed
- -ing form
- coursing
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“Of course I cannot understand it,” he said.
“Asked me questions about the vessel, the time she left Marseilles, the course she had taken, and what was her cargo.
“Of course there are no violets there now,” Anne told Marilla, “but Diana says there are millions of them in spring.
“Is your master much at Pemberley in the course of the year?”
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