deck
verb/dek/
/dek/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they deck | /dek/ /dek/ |
| he / she / it decks | /deks/ /deks/ |
| past simple decked | /dekt/ /dekt/ |
| past participle decked | /dekt/ /dekt/ |
| -ing form decking | /ˈdekɪŋ/ /ˈdekɪŋ/ |
- [often passive] to decorate somebody/something with something
- be decked out in/with something The room was decked out in flowers and balloons.
- be decked in/with something The Conservative candidate and his supporters were decked in blue rosettes.
- deck something (with something) Deck the halls with boughs of holly!
- deck somebody (informal) to hit somebody very hard so that they fall to the ground
Word Originlate Middle English: from Middle Dutch dec ‘covering, roof, cloak’, dekken ‘to cover’. Originally denoting canvas used to make a covering (especially on a ship), the term came to mean the covering itself, later denoting a solid surface serving as roof and floor.
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