practise
/ˈpɹæktɪs/ verb A1- To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity. · You should practise playing piano every day.
- To repeat an activity in this way. · If you want to speak French well, you need to practise.
- To perform or observe in an habitual fashion.
- To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine). · She practised law for forty years before retiring.
- To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
- To make use of; to employ.
- To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
He/she/it practises · Past practised · Past participle practised · -ing form practising
Verb forms
- Base form
- practise
- He/she/it
- practises
- Past
- practised
- Past participle
- practised
- -ing form
- practising
From the library
That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practise it much.
I’m afraid she doesn’t practise enough, and I have to tell her the same things so often.
Then I began to think of Holmes’s own methods and to try to practise them in reading this tragedy.
“I am very glad to hear such a good account of her,” said Lady Catherine; “and pray tell her from me, that she cannot expect to excel, if she does not practise a great deal.”
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