bag
/bæɡ/ verb C2- To put into a bag.
- To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting. · We bagged three deer yesterday.
- To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
- To steal.
- To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
- To arrest.
- To furnish or load with a bag.
- To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
He/she/it bags · Past bagged · Past participle bagged · -ing form bagging
Verb forms
- Base form
- bag
- He/she/it
- bags
- Past
- bagged
- Past participle
- bagged
- -ing form
- bagging
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Matthew, however, was spared the ordeal of speaking first, for as soon as she concluded that he was coming to her she stood up, grasping with one thin brown hand the handle of a shabby, old-fashioned carpet-bag; the other she held out to him.
Give me your bag.”
It’s an extremely old carpet-bag.
Then, holding tightly to the carpet-bag which contained “all her worldly goods,” she followed him into the house.
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