spot
/spɑt/ verb B2- To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify. · Try to spot the differences between these two pictures.
- To loan a small amount of money to someone. · I’ll spot you ten dollars for lunch.
- To stain; to leave a spot (on). · Hard water will spot if it is left on a surface.· a garment spotted with mould
- To cover with spots, to speckle.
- To experience vaginal spotting; to expel blood from the vagina.
- To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain. · I spotted the carpet where the child dropped spaghetti.
- To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
- To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates. · I can’t do a back handspring unless somebody spots me.
He/she/it spots · Past spotted · Past participle spotted · -ing form spotting
Verb forms
- Base form
- spot
- He/she/it
- spots
- Past
- spotted
- Past participle
- spotted
- -ing form
- spotting
From the library
“Never mind, Renée,” replied the marquise, with a look of tenderness that seemed out of keeping with her harsh dry features; but, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman’s nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the desert of her heart, and that is the shrine of maternal love.
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.
His first thought was that Oz had by accident caught on fire and was burning up; but when he tried to go nearer, the heat was so intense that it singed his whiskers, and he crept back tremblingly to a spot nearer the door.
As he had now arrived at the door of his own house, which adjoined the Palais de Justice, he entered, after having, coldly saluted the shipowner, who stood, as if petrified, on the spot where Villefort had left him.
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