verse
To tell in verse, or poetryTo tell in verse, or poetry.
» He translated the verse into English.
Er übersetzte die Strophe ins Englische. — riotlake
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4 senses(transitive)To tell in verse, or poetry.
(figuratively, transitive)To educate about, to teach about.
He versed us in the finer points of category theory.
(colloquial, proscribed, sometimes)To oppose, to compete against.
(obsolete)To compose verses.
compose verses or put into verse
Examples
121 sentencesHe translated the verse into English.
deEr übersetzte die Strophe ins Englische. — riotlake
This ballad is thirty verses long.
Tom forgot the words to the second verse, so he sang the first verse again.
I really like decasyllabic verses in poetry.
Мені дуже подобаються десятискладові вірші в поезії. — Ahha
Let's read a few verses from the Bible.
Origin
From Middle English vers, from a mixture of Old English fers and Old French vers; both froFrom Middle English vers, from a mixture of Old English fers and Old French vers; both from Latin versus (“a line in writing, and in poetry a verse; (originally) row, furrow”), from vertō (“to turn around”).
Back-formation from versus, misconstrued as a third-person singular verb verses.
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Forms
verses, versing, versed, versedSynonyms
3 synonymsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle