leash
verb/liːʃ/
/liːʃ/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they leash | /liːʃ/ /liːʃ/ |
| he / she / it leashes | /ˈliːʃɪz/ /ˈliːʃɪz/ |
| past simple leashed | /liːʃt/ /liːʃt/ |
| past participle leashed | /liːʃt/ /liːʃt/ |
| -ing form leashing | /ˈliːʃɪŋ/ /ˈliːʃɪŋ/ |
- leash something to control an animal, especially a dog, with a leashWord OriginMiddle English: from Old French lesse, laisse, from laissier in the specific sense ‘let run on a slack lead’, from Latin laxare ‘make loose’, from laxus ‘loose, lax’.
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