fit
/fɪt/ verb B1- To suffer a fit.
He/she/it fits · Past fitted · Past participle fitted · -ing form fitting
Verb forms
- Base form
- fit
- He/she/it
- fits
- Past
- fitted
- Past participle
- fitted
- -ing form
- fitting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
(Before she had this fit)
Then again—‘_before she had this fit_—’ you never had fits, my dear, I think?” he said to the Queen.
If a home is happy it cannot fit too close—let the dresser collapse and become a billiard table; let the mantel turn to a rowing machine, the escritoire to a spare bedchamber, the washstand to an upright piano; let the four walls come together, if they will, so you and your Delia are between.
Her dress was grey and plain, but it fitted her figure with fidelity and discretion.
Other matches
- fit Suitable A2
- fit The degree to which something fits. B2
- fit To be suitable for. C2
- fit A seizure or convulsion. C2
- fit An outfit, a set of clothing. C2
- fit in To be physically capable of going into a space.
- fit into To be of the right size and shape to be placed ...
- fit out To provide a thing, a group, a person or onesel...
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