bask
verb /bɑːsk/
/bæsk/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they bask | /bɑːsk/ /bæsk/ |
| he / she / it basks | /bɑːsks/ /bæsks/ |
| past simple basked | /bɑːskt/ /bæskt/ |
| past participle basked | /bɑːskt/ /bæskt/ |
| -ing form basking | /ˈbɑːskɪŋ/ /ˈbæskɪŋ/ |
- bask (in something) to enjoy sitting or lying in the heat or light of something, especially the sun
- We sat basking in the warm sunshine.
- A cat was basking on the windowsill.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryBask is used with these nouns as the subject:- seal
Word Originlate Middle English (originally in the sense ‘bathe’): perhaps related to Old Norse batha ‘bathe’.