cup
/ˈkʌp/ verb C2- To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands. · Cup your hands and I'll pour some rice into them.
- To hold something in cupped hands. · He cupped the ball carefully in his hands.
- To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup. · We are cupping some new brands of coffee today.
- To make concave or in the form of a cup. · to cup the end of a screw
He/she/it cups · Past cupped · Past participle cupped · -ing form cupping
Verb forms
- Base form
- cup
- He/she/it
- cups
- Past
- cupped
- Past participle
- cupped
- -ing form
- cupping
From the library
A cup of coffee would clear my brain.
“Burglary!” cried the Colonel, with his coffee-cup in mid-air.
One day last week—on Thursday night, to be more exact—I found that I could not sleep, having foolishly taken a cup of strong café noir after my dinner.
For this purpose he called for a cup, and while filling it with water, pretended to mix poison with the Cobbler’s antidote, commanding him to drink it on the promise of a reward.
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