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cup

/ˈkʌp/ verbo C2
  1. To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands. (transitive) · Cup your hands and I'll pour some rice into them.
  2. To hold something in cupped hands. (transitive) · He cupped the ball carefully in his hands.
  3. To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup. (transitive) · We are cupping some new brands of coffee today.
  4. To make concave or in the form of a cup. (transitive) · to cup the end of a screw

He/she/it cups · Pasado cupped · Participio pasado cupped · Forma en -ing cupping

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Pasado
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A cup of coffee would clear my brain.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 63 · B2
“Burglary!” cried the Colonel, with his coffee-cup in mid-air.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 32 · B2
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.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 8 · B2
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.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 81 · B2

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