felt
/ˈfɛlt/ verb C2- To make into felt or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
- To cover with, or as if with, felt. · to felt the cylinder of a steam engine
- To cause (a player) to lose all their chips.
- To thoroughly defeat or humiliate (someone).
He/she/it felts · Past felted · Past participle felted · -ing form felting
Verb forms
- Base form
- felt
- He/she/it
- felts
- Past
- felted
- Past participle
- felted
- -ing form
- felting
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“My body shone so brightly in the sun that I felt very proud of it and it did not matter now if my axe slipped, for it could not cut me.
“I felt sad at this, for it showed I was not such a good Scarecrow after all; but the old crow comforted me, saying, ‘If you only had brains in your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them.
I had the fun of watching them make my body and my arms and legs; and when they fastened on my head, at last, I felt very proud, for I thought I was just as good a man as anyone.
Dorothy began to sob at this, for she felt lonely among all these strange people.
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