perfect
/pɚˈfɛkt/ verb C1- To make perfect; to improve or hone. · I am going to perfect this article.· You spend too much time trying to perfect your dancing.
- To take an action, usually the filing of a document in the correct venue, that secures a legal right. · perfect an appeal· perfect an interest
He/she/it perfects · Past perfected · Past participle perfected · -ing form perfecting
Verb forms
- Base form
- perfect
- He/she/it
- perfects
- Past
- perfected
- Past participle
- perfected
- -ing form
- perfecting
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And of course he’s listening to her like a perfect ninny.
I have it!” With a perfect shriek of delight he rushed to the box, cut the other pill in two, dissolved it, added milk, and presented it to the terrier.
All the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was possible to conceive.
‘My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.’ That’s a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I’m disappointed in anything.”
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