[
UK
/ɡɹˈɑːs/
]
[ US /ˈɡɹæs/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹæs/ ]
VERB
- shoot down, of birds
- cover with grass
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cover with grass
The owners decided to grass their property - feed with grass
- spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
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give away information about somebody
He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam
NOUN
- a police informer who implicates many people
- bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
- narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
- street names for marijuana
How To Use grass In A Sentence
- I have to find grass and bring it up to them, otherwise they'll die. Times, Sunday Times
- If you are lucky enough to have a grassy paddock, it's worth the effort to get a couple of horses or a flock of sheep standing in just the right place.
- Once you got into the stadium, there were no seats, only grassy banks.
- In the sunlight, the steel surface comes alive with reflections, picking up the green of the surrounding grass.
- There are drifts of feverfew, clouds of philadelphus, grasses whispering in the breeze, and everywhere the perfume of 1,000 blossoms keeping the countryside alive in the heart of London.
- Each flat-roofed block is planted with sedum grass (that can absorb 70% of water run-off) and clad in slatted larch wood.
- Botanical species in this ancient ecosystem included sagebrush, bluegrass, sedges, and herbs.
- There is a fine square here called Madison, in the centre of which trees rise from fountain-watered grass, and statued figures of people who were men in their day and did things, palatial buildings, dignifying commerce, form the square. Impressions of a War Correspondent
- There had been formerly on the pathways of Dardilly calvaries built by pious forebears; destroyed on order of the revolutionary proconsul of Lyon, the famous Fouché, the crosses lay in the grass. Archive 2008-03-09
- AMEN: Grassroots Football is an incredible interactive roadbook from photographer Jessica Hilltout that depicts the essence of soccer as experienced throughout the African continent. Daniel Maree: Six Positively Promising World Cup Campaigns You Might Have Missed