dine
/daɪn/ verb B1- To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
- To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
He/she/it dines · Past dined · Past participle dined · -ing form dining
Verb forms
- Base form
- dine
- He/she/it
- dines
- Past
- dined
- Past participle
- dined
- -ing form
- dining
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Children, you may dine
Delia was to become familiar and then contemptuous with Music, so that when she saw the orchestra seats and boxes unsold she could have sore throat and lobster in a private dining-room and refuse to go on the stage.
“Twenty years ago to-night,” said the man, “I dined here at ‘Big Joe’ Brady’s with Jimmy Wells, my best chum, and the finest chap in the world.
He arrayed himself in the regalia of millionaires and presidents; he took himself to the quarter where life is brightest and showiest, and there dined with taste and luxury.
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