express
/ɪkˈspɹɛs/ verb B1- To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit. · Words cannot express the love I feel for him.
- To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
- To translate messenger RNA into protein.
- To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
He/she/it expresses · Past expressed · Past participle expressed · -ing form expressing
Verb forms
- Base form
- express
- He/she/it
- expresses
- Past
- expressed
- Past participle
- expressed
- -ing form
- expressing
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“It is not easy to express the inexpressible,” he answered with a laugh.
“Why, this is the way of it,” said the minister, with the gravest air in the world: “Napoleon lately had a review, and as two or three of his old veterans expressed a desire to return to France, he gave them their dismissal, and exhorted them to ‘serve the good king.’ These were his own words, of that I am certain.”
The beasts expressed their sorrow, and came one by one to his den, where the Lion devoured them.
I was expressing to my father my fears that he had wanted many things in my absence, and to convince me he emptied his purse on the table.
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