Meaning

1 senses

  1. (Canada, UK, common)To make lean.

Examples

17 sentences

  1. The pay was meager.

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  2. Fadil wasn't satisfied with meager wages.

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  3. He lived in a rather meagre house.

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  4. Despite her meagre salary, she works very hard.

    deTrotz ihres kargen Lohns arbeitet sie sehr fleißig. — Yorwba

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  5. It was difficult to live on his meager earnings.

    ruБыло трудно жить на его мизерное жалование. — Hellerick

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Origin

From Middle English megre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin

From Middle English megre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, macrum, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Cognate with Old English mæġer (“meagre, lean”), Dutch mager (“lean”), German mager (“lean”), Icelandic magur (“lean”).

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Forms

meagres, meagring, meagred, meagred
Base formmeagre · to meagre
3rd person singularmeagres
Present participlemeagring
Past simplemeagred
Past participlemeagred

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymeagre
he, she, itmeagres

Past simpleLesson

all personsmeagred

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill meagre

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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