Meaning

7 senses
  1. To prepare curds for making cheese.

    wind onto a cheese

  2. To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.

  3. (slang)To smile excessively, as for a camera.

  4. (slang)To stop; to refrain from.

    Cheese it! The cops!

    Cheese your patter! (= stop talking, shut up)

    used in the imperative (get away, or stop it)

  5. (slang)To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".

    All this waiting around is really cheesing me off.

  6. (Internet, ambitransitive)To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.)

    You can cheese most of the game using certain exploits.

  7. (slang)To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).

Examples

798 sentences
  1. I like butter better than cheese.

    Я більше люблю масло, ніж сир. — deniko

  2. There is no more cheese left.

    Сиру більше не лишилося. — deniko

    ruСыра больше нет. — nina99nv

  3. We don't have any more cheese.

    У нас закінчився сир. — deniko

    ruУ нас сыр закончился. — marafon

  4. I would like to buy some cheese.

    Я хотів би купити сиру. — deniko

    ruЯ бы хотел купить немного сыра. — odexed

    deIch möchte gerne Käse kaufen. — mayabe

  5. This cheese needs to be thrown out.

    Цей сир треба викинути. — Ahha

    ruЭтот сыр нужно выбросить. — Wezel

Origin

From Middle English chese, from Anglian Old English ċēse, from Proto-West Germanic *kāsī,

From Middle English chese, from Anglian Old English ċēse, from Proto-West Germanic *kāsī, borrowed from Latin cāseus. Doublet of queso.

From cheesy.

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Forms

cheeses, cheesing, cheesed, cheesed
Base formcheese · to cheese
3rd person singularcheeses
Present participlecheesing
Past simplecheesed
Past participlecheesed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycheese
he, she, itcheeses

Past simpleLesson

all personscheesed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave cheesed
he, she, ithas cheesed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill cheese

Phrasal verbs

4 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

3 synonyms
use a surprise all-in strategy early in a game:rushB1zerg

Word family

3 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • kind of cheese
  • goat cheese
  • cheese sandwich
  • how much cheese
  • buy some cheese
  • ham and cheese
  • and cheese sandwich
  • like cheese
  • some cheese
  • much cheese did
  • cheese is made
  • eat cheese

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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