league
/liːɡ/ verb C2- To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
He/she/it leagues · Past leagued · Past participle leagued · -ing form leaguing
Verb forms
- Base form
- league
- He/she/it
- leagues
- Past
- leagued
- Past participle
- leagued
- -ing form
- leaguing
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During his reign he made a royal proclamation for a general assembly of all the birds and beasts, and drew up conditions for a universal league, in which the Wolf and the Lamb, the Panther and the Kid, the Tiger and the Stag, the Dog and the Hare, should live together in perfect peace and amity.
“I have been at some small expense over this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of the Red-headed League.”
“You see, Watson,” he explained in the early hours of the morning as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, “it was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of the League, and the copying of the Encyclopædia, must be to get this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of hours every day.
they were, perhaps, in league with him.”
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