释义 |
quarryquarry2 verb (past tense and past participle quarried, present participle quarrying) [transitive] VERB TABLEquarry |
Present | I, you, we, they | quarry | | he, she, it | quarries | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | quarried | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have quarried | | he, she, it | has quarried | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had quarried | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will quarry | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have quarried |
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Present | I | am quarrying | | he, she, it | is quarrying | | you, we, they | are quarrying | Past | I, he, she, it | was quarrying | | you, we, they | were quarrying | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been quarrying | | he, she, it | has been quarrying | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been quarrying | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be quarrying | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been quarrying |
- The Romans did not quarry the most accessible stones.
to dig stone or sand from a quarryquarry something for something The rock here is quarried for building stones.quarry something from something Chalk is quarried from the surrounding area.—quarrying noun [uncountable] |