stone
verb/stəʊn/
/stəʊn/
[usually passive]Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they stone | /stəʊn/ /stəʊn/ |
| he / she / it stones | /stəʊnz/ /stəʊnz/ |
| past simple stoned | /stəʊnd/ /stəʊnd/ |
| past participle stoned | /stəʊnd/ /stəʊnd/ |
| -ing form stoning | /ˈstəʊnɪŋ/ /ˈstəʊnɪŋ/ |
- to throw stones at somebody/something
- be stoned Shops were looted and vehicles stoned.
- to be stoned to death (= as a punishment)
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- (British English) (also pit North American English, British English)stone something to remove the stone from the inside of a fruit
- stoned black olives
throw stones
fruit
Word OriginOld English stān (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch steen and German Stein. The verb dates from Middle English (first recorded in sense (1)).
Idioms
See stone in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarystone the crows | stone me
- (British English, old-fashioned) used to express surprise, shock, anger, etc.
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