bottle
verb/ˈbɒtl/
/ˈbɑːtl/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they bottle | /ˈbɒtl/ /ˈbɑːtl/ |
| he / she / it bottles | /ˈbɒtlz/ /ˈbɑːtlz/ |
| past simple bottled | /ˈbɒtld/ /ˈbɑːtld/ |
| past participle bottled | /ˈbɒtld/ /ˈbɑːtld/ |
| -ing form bottling | /ˈbɒtlɪŋ/ /ˈbɑːtlɪŋ/ |
- bottle something to put a liquid into a bottle
- The wines are bottled after three years.
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- bottle something to put fruit or vegetables into glass containers in order to preserve them
- Keep your empty jam jars for bottling next year’s fruit.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French boteille, from medieval Latin butticula, diminutive of late Latin buttis ‘cask’.
Idioms
See bottle in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybottle it
- (British English, informal) to not do something, or not finish something, because you are frightened
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