husband
verb/ˈhʌzbənd/
/ˈhʌzbənd/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they husband | /ˈhʌzbənd/ /ˈhʌzbənd/ |
| he / she / it husbands | /ˈhʌzbəndz/ /ˈhʌzbəndz/ |
| past simple husbanded | /ˈhʌzbəndɪd/ /ˈhʌzbəndɪd/ |
| past participle husbanded | /ˈhʌzbəndɪd/ /ˈhʌzbəndɪd/ |
| -ing form husbanding | /ˈhʌzbəndɪŋ/ /ˈhʌzbəndɪŋ/ |
- husband something to use something very carefully and make sure that you do not waste it
- Times are hard and we have to husband our resources.
- She waited, husbanding her strength for her next visitors.
Word Originlate Old English in the senses ‘male head of a household’ and ‘manager, steward’, from Old Norse húsomebodyóndi ‘master of a house’, from hús ‘house’ + bóndi ‘occupier and tiller of the soil’. The original sense of the verb was ‘till, cultivate’.Want to learn more?
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