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flitflit /flɪt/ verb (past tense and past participle flitted, present participle flitting) [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] flitOrigin: 1100-1200 Old Norse flytja ‘to carry around’ VERB TABLEflit |
Present | I, you, we, they | flit | | he, she, it | flits | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | flitted | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have flitted | | he, she, it | has flitted | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had flitted | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will flit | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have flitted |
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Present | I | am flitting | | he, she, it | is flitting | | you, we, they | are flitting | Past | I, he, she, it | was flitting | | you, we, they | were flitting | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been flitting | | he, she, it | has been flitting | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been flitting | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be flitting | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been flitting |
- In the greenhouse birds flit among the plants.
- He lowered his fork and stopped eating, astonished at the idea that had flitted through his mind.
- Her glance flitted lovingly over his sleeping face.
- My attention flitted here and there.
- She flits in and out of people's lives and never stays long enough to allow anyone to get to know her.
- So I watched as he flitted between the front seats of the bus and fingered the synthetic fur around his hood.
- While Peter Pan may not flit around offering free peanut butter, low-cost foreign peanut growers do offer us their crops.
- Women with pallid faces flitted bareheaded through the streets searching for their dead or wounded.
to move lightly or quickly and not stay in one place for very long: Birds flitted about in the trees above them. She seemed to spend her life flitting from one country to another. His eyes flitted to his watch. |