address
/əˈdɹɛs/ verb B1- To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
- To direct one’s remarks (to someone).
- To direct, as words (to anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any audience). · He addressed some portions of his remarks to his supporters, some to his opponents.
- To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to.
- To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit. · He addressed a letter.
- To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
- To consign or entrust to the care of another, as agent or factor. · The ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore.
- To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech, discourse or efforts to.
He/she/it addresses · Past addressed · Past participle addressed · -ing form addressing
Verb forms
- Base form
- address
- He/she/it
- addresses
- Past
- addressed
- Past participle
- addressed
- -ing form
- addressing
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Morrel, addressing the magistrate, whom he evidently knew; “there is doubtless some mistake easily explained.”
“You see,” said Danglars, addressing Caderousse, “the turn things have taken.
He saw before him an officer delegated to enforce the law, and perfectly well knew that it would be as unavailing to seek pity from a magistrate decked with his official scarf, as to address a petition to some cold marble effigy.
A FLY sat on the axle-tree of a chariot, and addressing the Draught-Mule said, “How slow you are!
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