tiptoe
/ˈtɪpˌtoʊ/ verb B2- To walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground.
He/she/it tiptoes · Past tiptoed · Past participle tiptoed · -ing form tiptoeing
Verb forms
- Base form
- tiptoe
- He/she/it
- tiptoes
- Past
- tiptoed
- Past participle
- tiptoed
- -ing form
- tiptoeing
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She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large blue caterpillar, that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else.
He looked anxiously over his shoulder as he spoke, and then raised himself upon tiptoe, put his mouth close to her ear, and whispered “She’s under sentence of execution.”
Here and there a wild plum leaned out from the bank like a white-clad girl tiptoeing to her own reflection.
He tiptoed along the hall and stood for several minutes outside the door of the east gable before he summoned courage to tap on it with his fingers and then open the door to peep in.
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