piece
/piːs/ verb C2- To assemble (something real or figurative). · These clues allowed us to piece together the solution to the mystery.
- To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out. · to piece a garment
- To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.
- To eat small quantities of food between meals; to snack; to take small or intermittent bites at a food item.
He/she/it pieces · Past pieced · Past participle pieced · -ing form piecing
Verb forms
- Base form
- piece
- He/she/it
- pieces
- Past
- pieced
- Past participle
- pieced
- -ing form
- piecing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and neither of the others took the least notice of her going, though she looked back once or twice, half hoping that they would call after her: the last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot.
Then she went to work nibbling at the mushroom (she had kept a piece of it in her pocket) till she was about a foot high: then she walked down the little passage: and _then_—she found herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains.
He came in with a teacup in one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other.
This did not seem to encourage the witness at all: he kept shifting from one foot to the other, looking uneasily at the Queen, and in his confusion he bit a large piece out of his teacup instead of the bread-and-butter.
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