Meaning

1 senses

  1. To produce an artificial cloud of this kind.

Examples

2 sentences

  1. We watched the airplane's contrails.

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  2. The US Navy apologized after one of its pilots drew a giant penis in the sky using the contrails of his aircraft.

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Origin

Blend of condensation + trail.

Blend of condensation + trail.

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Forms

contrails, contrailing, contrailed, contrailed
Base formcontrail · to contrail
3rd person singularcontrails
Present participlecontrailing
Past simplecontrailed
Past participlecontrailed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycontrail
he, she, itcontrails

Past simpleLesson

all personscontrailed

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill contrail

Antonyms

1 antonyms
distrail

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
contradictB2contradictionB2contradictoryB2contraptionC2contrariancontraryB1
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