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to tiptoe
01
to walk slowly and carefully on one's toes
Intransitive: to tiptoe | to tiptoe somewhere
Grammatical Information
Composition
Compound
Movement verb
Regular
Present tense
tiptoe
3rd person singular
tiptoes
Present participle
tiptoeing
Past simple
tiptoed
Past participle
tiptoed
Examples
Trying not to wake the baby, she tiptoed into the nursery.
tiptoe
01
in a manner performed on the toes, often quietly or delicately
Grammatical Information
interrogative adverb
Examples
She entered the room tiptoe to avoid waking the baby.
tiptoe
01
walking on the tips of the toes to move quietly
Grammatical Information
Composition
Compound
qualitative
ungradable
Examples
She gave a tiptoe step across the creaking floor.
Tiptoe
01
the tip or end of a toe
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Composition
Compound
Countable
Plural form
tiptoes
Examples
He stubbed his tiptoe on the corner of the table.
