fit
/fɪt/ noun C2- A seizure or convulsion. · My grandfather died after having a fit.
- A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time.
- A sudden outburst of emotion. · He had a laughing fit which lasted more than ten minutes.· She had a fit and threw all of his clothes out through the window.
- A sudden burst (of an activity).
Plural fits
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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But one of the tree’s prickles pierced his finger and caused great pain and inflammation, so that the young Prince fell down in a fainting fit.
She was going to the butcher’s, she told me, on purpose to order in some meat on Wednesday, and she has got three couple of ducks just fit to be killed.”
Her grief, which she had hitherto tried to restrain, now burst out in a violent fit of hysterical sobbing.
Then I thought, as the country was so green and beautiful, I would call it the Emerald City; and to make the name fit better I put green spectacles on all the people, so that everything they saw was green.”
Other matches
- fit Suitable A2
- fit To suffer a fit. B1
- fit The degree to which something fits. B2
- fit To be suitable for. C2
- fit An outfit, a set of clothing. C2
- fit in To be physically capable of going into a space.
- fit into To be of the right size and shape to be placed ...
- fit out To provide a thing, a group, a person or onesel...
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