behold
/bɪˈhoʊld/ verb C1- To look at or see (someone or something), especially appreciatively; to descry, to look upon.
- To contemplate (someone or something).
- To look. · Lo and behold.
Plural behold · He/she/it beholds · Past beheld · Past participle beheld · -ing form beholding
Verb forms
- Base form
- behold
- He/she/it
- beholds
- Past
- beheld
- Past participle
- beheld
- -ing form
- beholding
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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“Amusing, certainly,” replied the young man, “inasmuch as, instead of shedding tears as at the fictitious tale of woe produced at a theatre, you behold in a law-court a case of real and genuine distress—a drama of life.
Dorothy picked them up and had the Winkies carry them back to the castle, where they were stuffed with nice, clean straw; and behold!
Now we behold the embers flee
Behold the link with Brother Mycroft!”
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