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glee

/ɡliː/ verb C2
  1. To sing a glee (unaccompanied part song).

He/she/it glees · Past gleed · Past participle gleed · -ing form gleeing

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Verb forms

Base form
glee
He/she/it
glees
Past
gleed
Past participle
gleed
-ing form
gleeing

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He pulled up his horse, and with great glee joined in the joke by saying, “What a marvel it is that hairs which are not mine should fly from me, when they have forsaken even the man on whose head they grew.”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 55 · B2
“What do you think of that, Watson?” cried Holmes in high glee, rubbing his hands together with satisfaction.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 36 · C1

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