Meaning

10 senses
  1. (intransitive)To be firmly fixed in a specified position.

    The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree.

    feststecken, festklemmen

    застрева́тьzastrevátʹ, застря́тьzastrjátʹ

  2. (transitive)To firmly fix in a specified position.

    I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth.

  3. (intransitive)To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.

    The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street.

    квартирова́тьсяkvartirovátʹsja, остава́тьсяostavátʹsja, оста́тьсяostátʹsja

  4. (intransitive)To stay in any place or shelter.

    logieren

    be a lodger; stay temporarily

  5. (transitive)To drive (an animal) to covert.

  6. (transitive)To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.

  7. (transitive)To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.

  8. (transitive)To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).

    to lodge a complaint

    Powers that are lodged with the cabinet.

    einlegen

    подава́тьpodavátʹ, пода́тьpodátʹ

  9. (intransitive)To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.

    The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge.

  10. (transitive)To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.

Examples

47 sentences
  1. Did you lodge a formal complaint?

  2. I want to lodge a formal complaint.

    ruЯ хочу подать официальную жалобу. — odexed

  3. I lodged a complaint with the police.

  4. There's a fishing lodge near Boston that I often go to.

  5. Tom is in the ski lodge.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
to be firmly fixed in a specified position:
to stay in a boarding-house:
to place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
to be firmly fixed in a specified position:
to stay in any place or shelter:
to place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities:

Origin

From Middle English logge, from Old French loge (“an arbour, a covered walk-way”).

From Middle English logge, from Old French loge (“an arbour, a covered walk-way”).

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Forms

lodges, lodging, lodged, lodged
Base formlodge · to lodge
3rd person singularlodges
Present participlelodging
Past simplelodged
Past participlelodged

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theylodge
he, she, itlodges

Past simpleLesson

all personslodged

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill lodge

Synonyms

17 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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