case
verb/keɪs/
/keɪs/
Word Originverb late Middle English: from Old French casse, chasse (modern caisse ‘trunk, chest’, châsse ‘reliquary, frame’), from Latin capsa, related to capere ‘to hold’.
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they case | /keɪs/ /keɪs/ |
| he / she / it cases | /ˈkeɪsɪz/ /ˈkeɪsɪz/ |
| past simple cased | /keɪst/ /keɪst/ |
| past participle cased | /keɪst/ /keɪst/ |
| -ing form casing | /ˈkeɪsɪŋ/ /ˈkeɪsɪŋ/ |
Idioms
See case in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarycase the joint
- (informal) to look carefully around a building in order to plan how to steal things from it at a later timeTopics Crime and punishmentc2
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