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lard

/lɑɹd/ verb C2
  1. To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.
  2. To smear with fat or lard.
  3. To distribute, garnish or strew, especially with reference to fatty or greasy things or words or phrases in speech and writing.
  4. To fatten; to enrich.
  5. To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
  6. To embellish with unnecessary frills; to pad.

He/she/it lards · Past larded · Past participle larded · -ing form larding

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Verb forms

Base form
lard
He/she/it
lards
Past
larded
Past participle
larded
-ing form
larding

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About halfway up the forearm was a curious brown design, a triangle inside a circle, standing out in vivid relief upon the lard-coloured skin.
The Valley of Fear, p. 31 · C1

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