concertinaing
present participle ofconcertina
| 单词 | concertinaing |
| 释义 | concertinaing present participle ofconcertina concertina verb[IorT] UKuk/ˌkɒn.səˈtiː.nə/us/ˌkɑːn.sɚˈtiː.nə/tofold,crush, orpushtogether: In theaccident, severalcarsconcertinaedintoeach other. figurativeCould we concertina the threemeetingsintoonemorning? Squeezing and grinding
Examplesofconcertinaingconcertinaing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. I shall demonstrate how theconcertinaingof the period between announcement tonight of the new boundaries and the elections has prevented the making of some substantial claims. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Reference has been made to the enormous increase in costs which results fromconcertinaingof our holidays into this limited number of weeks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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