syringe
verb/sɪˈrɪndʒ/
/sɪˈrɪndʒ/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they syringe | /sɪˈrɪndʒ/ /sɪˈrɪndʒ/ |
| he / she / it syringes | /sɪˈrɪndʒɪz/ /sɪˈrɪndʒɪz/ |
| past simple syringed | /sɪˈrɪndʒd/ /sɪˈrɪndʒd/ |
| past participle syringed | /sɪˈrɪndʒd/ /sɪˈrɪndʒd/ |
| -ing form syringing | /sɪˈrɪndʒɪŋ/ /sɪˈrɪndʒɪŋ/ |
- syringe something to clean somebody’s ear, a wound, etc. by spraying liquid into it with a syringe
- I had my ears syringed.
Word Originlate Middle English: from medieval Latin syringa, from syrinx, from Greek surinx ‘pipe, channel’.Definitions on the go
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