Meaning

3 senses

  1. To give birth to cubs.

    give birth to cubs

  2. To hunt fox cubs.

  3. (obsolete)To shut up or confine.

Examples

56 sentences

  1. The tiger cub looked like a large kitten.

    Тигреня виглядало як велике кошеня. — marko

    ruТигрёнок был похож на большого котёнка. — Balamax

    deDas Tigerjunge sah wie ein großes Kätzchen aus. — cost

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  2. These bear cubs are still nursing.

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  3. These little cubs are so cute.

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  4. Ziri played with the lion cub.

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  5. The vixen is feeding her cubs.

    ruЛисица кормит лисят. — Wezel

    deDie Füchsin füttert ihre Welpen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Origin

From earlier cubbe. Origin unknown. According to Pokorny, from Proto-Germanic *kubb-, from

From earlier cubbe. Origin unknown. According to Pokorny, from Proto-Germanic *kubb-, from Proto-Indo-European *gup- (“round object, knoll”), from *gew- (“to bend, curve, convex, arch, vault”). Related terms include cup (cf. cupboard), coffin, cove, etc, essentially “chamber”, thus cub maybe initially derived from the sense “den”, or maybe “womb”.

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Forms

cubs, cubbing, cubbed, cubbed
Base formcub · to cub
3rd person singularcubs
Present participlecubbing
Past simplecubbed
Past participlecubbed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycub
he, she, itcubs

Past simpleLesson

all personscubbed

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill cub

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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