decorates
- 1Third-person singular simple present of decorate.
Every December she decorates the entire house for the holidays.
The committee decorates the hall before each annual banquet.
Note
The -s form carries every sense of the verb, and they differ in what follows it. Most need an object: she decorates the tree, a general decorates a soldier for bravery, a programmer decorates a method with an extra code item. Only the interior sense can stand alone, as in he decorates for a living, where no room needs naming because the trade itself is meant.
He decorates for a living and has done up half the offices on this street.
Each spring the general decorates the soldiers who served with distinction.
decorates is a form of decorate
decorate, verb: To furnish a room, object, or space with ornaments and other adornments. Full entry
- Forms
- decoratedecorates he/she/itdecorating -ing formdecorated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- decorate → decorates: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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