tar
verb/tɑː(r)/
/tɑːr/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they tar | /tɑː(r)/ /tɑːr/ |
| he / she / it tars | /tɑːz/ /tɑːrz/ |
| past simple tarred | /tɑːd/ /tɑːrd/ |
| past participle tarred | /tɑːd/ /tɑːrd/ |
| -ing form tarring | /ˈtɑːrɪŋ/ /ˈtɑːrɪŋ/ |
- tar something to cover something with tar
- a tarred road
Word OriginOld English teru, teoru, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch teer, German Teer, and perhaps ultimately to tree.
Idioms
See tar in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybe tarred with the same brush (as somebody)
- to be thought to have the same faults, etc. as somebody else
tar and feather somebody
- to put tar on somebody then cover them with feathers, as a punishment
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