river
/ˈɹɪvɚ/ verb C2- To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game. · Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.
He/she/it rivers · Past rivered · Past participle rivered · -ing form rivering
Verb forms
- Base form
- river
- He/she/it
- rivers
- Past
- rivered
- Past participle
- rivered
- -ing form
- rivering
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AN ANT went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and being carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of drowning.
A RIVER carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of brass.
This entertaining sight brought the people in crowds to laugh at it, till the Ass, not liking the noise nor the strange handling that he was subject to, broke the cords that bound him and, tumbling off the pole, fell into the river.
They carried the sleeping girl to a pretty spot beside the river, far enough from the poppy field to prevent her breathing any more of the poison of the flowers, and here they laid her gently on the soft grass and waited for the fresh breeze to waken her.
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