cataract
/ˈkætəˌɹæk(t)/ verb C2- Of a river, etc.: to fall in the form of a waterfall.
He/she/it cataracts · Past cataracted · Past participle cataracted · -ing form cataracting
Verb forms
- Base form
- cataract
- He/she/it
- cataracts
- Past
- cataracted
- Past participle
- cataracted
- -ing form
- cataracting
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The latter looked out with three tiers of vacant melancholy windows, which were blank and dreary, save that here and there a “To Let” card had developed like a cataract upon the bleared panes.
Adair’s mother had returned from Australia to undergo the operation for cataract, and she, her son Ronald, and her daughter Hilda were living together at 427, Park Lane.
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