posture
verb/ˈpɒstʃə(r)/
/ˈpɑːstʃər/
[intransitive] (disapproving)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they posture | /ˈpɒstʃə(r)/ /ˈpɑːstʃər/ |
| he / she / it postures | /ˈpɒstʃəz/ /ˈpɑːstʃərz/ |
| past simple postured | /ˈpɒstʃəd/ /ˈpɑːstʃərd/ |
| past participle postured | /ˈpɒstʃəd/ /ˈpɑːstʃərd/ |
| -ing form posturing | /ˈpɒstʃərɪŋ/ /ˈpɑːstʃərɪŋ/ |
- posture (as something) to pretend to be something that you are not by saying and doing things in order to impress or trick peopleWord Originlate 16th cent. (denoting the relative position of one thing to another): from French, from Italian postura, from Latin positura ‘position’, from posit- ‘placed’, from the verb ponere.
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