check
/t͡ʃɛk/ verb A2- To mark with a check pattern.
He/she/it checks · Past checked · Past participle checked · -ing form checking
Verb forms
- Base form
- check
- He/she/it
- checks
- Past
- checked
- Past participle
- checked
- -ing form
- checking
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- check in To announce or record one's own arrival at a hotel, airpo...
- check into To formally announce one's arrival at a location or event...
- check off To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing ...
- check on To personally verify that (someone or something) is safe,...
- check out To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or somet...
- check over To read or inspect, looking for errors or problems.
- check through To permit someone to continue onward, e.g. through a secu...
- check up To verify through brief investigation or revisit for assu...
From the library
Sick and giddy as Mowgli was he could not help enjoying the wild rush, though the glimpses of earth far down below frightened him, and the terrible check and jerk at the end of the swing over nothing but empty air brought his heart between his teeth.
Then, if you had been watching, you would have seen the most wonderful thing in the world--the wolf checked in mid-spring.
He wore rather baggy grey shepherd’s check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as an ornament.
There he checked, for he heard the yell of the Pack hunting, heard the bellow of a hunted Sambhur, and the snort as the buck turned at bay.
Other matches
- check An inspection or examination. A1
- check To inspect C2
- check A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alter... C2
- check An expression showing that a requirement has be... C2
- check in To announce or record one's own arrival at a ho...
- check into To formally announce one's arrival at a locatio...
- check off To mark items on a list
- check on To personally verify that
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