Meaning

3 senses
  1. To capture or round up.

    Between us, we managed to corral the puppies in the kitchen.

  2. To place inside of a corral.

    After we corralled the last steer, we headed off to the chuck wagon for dinner.

    enclose in a corral

  3. To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral.

    The cattle drivers corralled their wagons for the night.

    arrange wagons so that they form a corral

Examples

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  1. NASA wants to corral an asteroid.

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  2. The ewes have their own corral.

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  3. The ewes were in the corral.

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  4. Ziri got the sheep in the corral.

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  5. The cows started running in the corral.

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Translations

4 languages

Origin

From Spanish corral. Doublet of kraal.

From Spanish corral. Doublet of kraal.

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Forms

corrals, corraling, corraled, corraled
Base formcorral · to corral
3rd person singularcorrals
Present participlecorraling
Past simplecorraled / corralled
Past participlecorraled / corralled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycorral
he, she, itcorrals

Past simpleLesson

all personscorraled

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill corral

Word family

1 related words
Derivedcorraler

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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