turf
verb/tɜːf/
/tɜːrf/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they turf | /tɜːf/ /tɜːrf/ |
| he / she / it turfs | /tɜːfs/ /tɜːrfs/ |
| past simple turfed | /tɜːft/ /tɜːrft/ |
| past participle turfed | /tɜːft/ /tɜːrft/ |
| -ing form turfing | /ˈtɜːfɪŋ/ /ˈtɜːrfɪŋ/ |
- turf something to cover an area of ground with turfWord OriginOld English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch turf and German Torf, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit darbha ‘tuft of grass’.
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