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tuft

/tʌft/ verbo C2

En español: adornar con borlas, capitonear, formar mechones

  1. To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts. (transitive)
  2. To form into tufts. (transitive)
  3. To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts. This hinders the stuffing from moving. (transitive)
  4. To be formed into tufts. (intransitive)

He/she/it tufts · Pasado tufted · Participio pasado tufted · Forma en -ing tufting

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Formas del verbo

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tuft
He/she/it
tufts
Pasado
tufted
Participio pasado
tufted
Forma en -ing
tufting

De la biblioteca

On these his eager, questioning eyes were fixed, and I saw on his keen, alert face that tightening of the lips, that quiver of the nostrils, and concentration of the heavy, tufted brows which I knew so well.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 14 · B2
He flung the fire pot on the ground, and some of the red coals lit a tuft of dried moss that flared up, as all the Council drew back in terror before the leaping flames.
The Jungle Book, p. 25 · B2
But here is a debt to pay before I go.” He strode forward to where Shere Khan sat blinking stupidly at the flames, and caught him by the tuft on his chin.
The Jungle Book, p. 26 · B2
When he had lifted one-third of himself clear of the ground, he stayed balancing to and fro exactly as a dandelion tuft balances in the wind, and he looked at Rikki-tikki with the wicked snake’s eyes that never change their expression, whatever the snake may be thinking of.
The Jungle Book, p. 68 · B2

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