parent
/ˈpɛəɹənt/ verb C1- To act as parent, to raise or rear.
- To provide a parent object for one or more other objects, which become the children.
He/she/it parents · Past parented · Past participle parented · -ing form parenting
Verb forms
- Base form
- parent
- He/she/it
- parents
- Past
- parented
- Past participle
- parented
- -ing form
- parenting
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Let what may remain of revolutionary sap exhaust itself and die away with the old trunk, and condescend only to regard the young shoot which has started up at a distance from the parent tree, without having the power, any more than the wish, to separate entirely from the stock from which it sprung.”
“Why, that is the very worst offence they could possibly commit; for, don’t you see, Renée, the king is the father of his people, and he who shall plot or contrive aught against the life and safety of the parent of thirty-two millions of souls, is a parricide upon a fearfully great scale?”
“Nonsense, I am going to set you an example of confidence, they give me 50,000 francs a year to be your son; consequently, you can understand that it is not at all likely I shall ever deny my parent.”
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