MEANING
To put into or cover with a sheath or protective covering.
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Words that belong together
- sheathe a blade
- tissue sheathes a structure
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He sheathed the blade before approaching the table.
A thin tissue layer sheathed the darker structure.
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Word forms
- Base
- sheathe
- Past tense
- sheathed
- Past participle
- sheathed
- Present participle
- sheathing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- sheathe
- Present continuous
- am/is/are sheathing
- Present perfect
- have/has sheathed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been sheathing
- Past
- sheathed
- Past continuous
- was/were sheathing
- Past perfect
- had sheathed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been sheathing
- Future
- will sheathe
- Future continuous
- will be sheathing
- Future perfect
- will have sheathed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been sheathing
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: sheathe; sheathes; sheathed; sheathed; sheathing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: sheathes.
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