roof
verb/ruːf/
/ruːf/
[often passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they roof | /ruːf/ /ruːf/ |
| he / she / it roofs | /ruːfs/ /ruːfs/ |
| past simple roofed | /ruːft/ /ruːft/ |
| past participle roofed | /ruːft/ /ruːft/ |
| -ing form roofing | /ˈruːfɪŋ/ /ˈruːfɪŋ/ |
- to cover something with a roof; to put a roof on a building
- roof something (in/over) The shopping centre is not roofed over.
- roof something with/in something Their cottage was roofed with green slate.
Word OriginOld English hrōf, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse hróf ‘boat shed’, Dutch roef ‘deckhouse’. English alone has the general sense ‘covering of a house’; other Germanic languages use forms related to thatch.Definitions on the go
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