street
/stɹit/ verb C2- To build or equip with streets.
- To eject; to throw onto the streets.
- To heavily defeat.
- To go on sale.
- To proselytize in public.
He/she/it streets · Past streeted · Past participle streeted · -ing form streeting
Verb forms
- Base form
- street
- He/she/it
- streets
- Past
- streeted
- Past participle
- streeted
- -ing form
- streeting
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An unknown person had been with him that morning, and made an appointment with him in the Rue Saint-Jacques; unfortunately, the general’s valet, who was dressing his hair at the moment when the stranger entered, heard the street mentioned, but did not catch the number.” As the police minister related this to the king, Villefort, who looked as if his very life hung on the speaker’s lips, turned alternately red and pale.
With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.
“Well, gentlemen, the day before these happenings I was over in Tunbridge Wells, and I got a glimpse of a man in the street.
Watson, 221B, Baker Street, between eight and nine this evening.”
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