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to vouchsafe
01
to give something with a sense of superiority
Ditransitive: to vouchsafe sb sth | to vouchsafe sth to sb
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
vouchsafe
3rd person singular
vouchsafes
Present participle
vouchsafing
Past simple
vouchsafed
Past participle
vouchsafed
Examples
The professor vouchsafed a small piece of advice to the struggling student, as if imparting wisdom to a child.
Lexical Tree
vouchsafe
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