Meaning

1 senses

  1. To draw with a crayon.

    write, draw, or trace with a crayon

Examples

39 sentences

  1. Tom has a box of crayons.

    ruУ Тома есть коробка карандашей. — marafon

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  2. I bought Tom a box of crayons.

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  3. I bought a box of crayons for Tom.

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  4. Tom scribbled on the wall with a blue crayon.

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  5. Tom put the box of crayons in his desk drawer.

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Origin

Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) + -on (diminutive suffix), fr

Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) + -on (diminutive suffix), from Latin crēta (“chalk, clay”), perhaps from crētus.

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Forms

crayons, crayoning, crayoned, crayoned
Base formcrayon · to crayon
3rd person singularcrayons
Present participlecrayoning
Past simplecrayoned
Past participlecrayoned

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycrayon
he, she, itcrayons

Past simpleLesson

all personscrayoned

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill crayon

Word family

1 related words
Deriveduncrayoned

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
crawlB2crayfishcrazecrazilycraziness
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