husband
/ˈhʌzbənd/ verb C2- To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.
- To conserve.
- To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.
He/she/it husbands · Past husbanded · Past participle husbanded · -ing form husbanding
Verb forms
- Base form
- husband
- He/she/it
- husbands
- Past
- husbanded
- Past participle
- husbanded
- -ing form
- husbanding
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“When the house is emptied of people,” said Nagaina to her husband, “he will have to go away, and then the garden will be our own again.
My husband lies on the rubbish heap this morning, but before night the boy in the house will lie very still.
“He saved our lives and Teddy’s life,” she said to her husband.
Thomas Lynde--a meek little man whom Avonlea people called “Rachel Lynde’s husband”--was sowing his late turnip seed on the hill field beyond the barn; and Matthew Cuthbert ought to have been sowing his on the big red brook field away over by Green Gables.
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