Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To defile or taint.

  2. (intransitive, obsolete)To yield or be plentiful in meal.

Examples

1095 sentences

  1. Thank you for the wonderful meal.

    Дякую за чудову їжу. — rmdas

    ruСпасибо за чудесную еду. — odexed

    deDanke für das wunderbare Essen. — Wolf

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  2. Brush your teeth after each meal.

    Чисти зуби після кожного прийому їжі. — aandrusiak

    ruЧисти зубы после каждого приема пищи. — sharptoothed

    dePutze deine Zähne nach jeder Mahlzeit. — MUIRIEL

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  3. My friends treated me to a meal.

    Друзі пригостили мене обідом. — deniko

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  4. You should wash your hands before each meal.

    Треба мити руки перед їдою. — rozmaita

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  5. Thanks for the meal.

    Дякую за їжу. — deniko

    ruСпасибо за угощение! — sharptoothed

    deDanke für das Essen. — Yorwba

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Origin

From Middle English mele, from Old English melu (“meal, flour”), from Proto-West Germanic

From Middle English mele, from Old English melu (“meal, flour”), from Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą (“meal, flour”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, mill”).

Variation of mole (compare Scots mail), from Middle English mole, mool, from Old English māl, mǣl (“spot, mark, blemish”), from Proto-Germanic *mailą (“wrinkle, spot”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to soil”). More at mole.

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Forms

meals, mealing, mealed, mealed
Base formmeal · to meal
3rd person singularmeals
Present participlemealing
Past simplemealed
Past participlemealed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymeal
he, she, itmeals

Past simpleLesson

all personsmealed

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill meal

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

12 patterns
  • eat between meals
  • between meals
  • meals a day
  • home cooked meal
  • a delicious meal
  • delicious meal
  • three square meals
  • teeth after meals
  • after every meal
  • a decent meal
  • a good meal
  • square meals a

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
meadowmeagreC2mealtimemeanA1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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