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card

/kɑɹd/ verb C2
  1. To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement. (US, transitive) · They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger.· I heard you don't get carded at the other liquor store.
  2. To play cards. (dated)
  3. To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card. (transitive) · McIlroy carded a stellar nine-under-par 61 in the final round.

He/she/it cards · Past carded · Past participle carded · -ing form carding

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Verb forms

Base form
card
He/she/it
cards
Past
carded
Past participle
carded
-ing form
carding

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Ruby Gillis gave me an apple and Sophia Sloane lent me a lovely pink card with ‘May I see you home?’ on it.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 109 · C1
Diana gave me a beautiful card with a wreath of roses on it and a verse of poetry:”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 142 · C1
First a card with “For the Anne-girl and Merry Christmas,” written on it; and then, a pair of the daintiest little kid slippers, with beaded toes and satin bows and glistening buckles.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 197 · C1
Elizabeth was so much caught by what passed, as to leave her very little attention for her book; and, soon laying it wholly aside, she drew near the card-table, and stationed herself between Mr.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 41 · B2

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