harpoon
verb/hɑːˈpuːn/
/hɑːrˈpuːn/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they harpoon | /hɑːˈpuːn/ /hɑːrˈpuːn/ |
| he / she / it harpoons | /hɑːˈpuːnz/ /hɑːrˈpuːnz/ |
| past simple harpooned | /hɑːˈpuːnd/ /hɑːrˈpuːnd/ |
| past participle harpooned | /hɑːˈpuːnd/ /hɑːrˈpuːnd/ |
| -ing form harpooning | /hɑːˈpuːnɪŋ/ /hɑːrˈpuːnɪŋ/ |
- harpoon something to hit something with a harpoon
- Thousands of whales have been harpooned in these waters.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryHarpoon is used with these nouns as the object:- whale
Word Originearly 17th cent. (denoting a barbed dart or spear): from French harpon, from harpe ‘dog's claw, clamp’, via Latin from Greek harpē ‘sickle’.Definitions on the go
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