quarry
verb/ˈkwɒri/
/ˈkwɑːri/
[usually passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they quarry | /ˈkwɒri/ /ˈkwɑːri/ |
| he / she / it quarries | /ˈkwɒriz/ /ˈkwɑːriz/ |
| past simple quarried | /ˈkwɒrid/ /ˈkwɑːrid/ |
| past participle quarried | /ˈkwɒrid/ /ˈkwɑːrid/ |
| -ing form quarrying | /ˈkwɒriɪŋ/ /ˈkwɑːriɪŋ/ |
- to take stone, etc. out of a quarry
- A is quarried (from/out of B) The local rock is quarried from the hillside.
- B is quarried (for A) The area is being quarried for limestone.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryQuarry is used with these nouns as the object:- marble
Word Originverb Middle English: from a variant of medieval Latin quareria, from Old French quarriere, based on Latin quadrum ‘a square’. The verb dates from the late 18th cent.Definitions on the go
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