verse

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɝs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɜːs/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s

Partly from Old English fers; partly, from Old French vers; both, from Latin versus (“a line in writing, and in poetry a verse; (originally) row, furrow”), from vertō (“to turn around”).

verse (countable and uncountable, plural verses)

1. A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.

   Restoration literature is well known for its carefully constructed verse.

2. Poetic form in general.

   The restrictions of verse have been steadily relaxed over time.

3. One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.

   Note the shift in tone between the first verse and the second.

4. A small section of the Jewish or Christian Bible.

• blank verse
• free verse

• versification
• versify

verse (third-person singular simple present verses, present participle versing, simple past and past participle versed)

1. (obsolete) To compose verses.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Sir Philip Sidney

     It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.

2. (transitive) To tell in verse, or poetry.
   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     playing on pipes of corn and versing love

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verse (third-person singular simple present verses, present participle versing, simple past and past participle versed)

1. to educate about, to teach about.

   He versed us in the finer points of category theory.

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. […] Next day she […] tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and had perhaps spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.

Back-formation from versus, misconstrued as a third-person singular verb verses.

verse (third-person singular simple present verses, present participle versing, simple past and past participle versed)

1. (colloquial) To oppose, to be an opponent for, especially in a video game.

   Verse him, G!

• verse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• verse in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• verse at OneLook Dictionary Search

• reves, serve, sever, veers

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verse

1. Inflected form of vers

• vrees

verse

1. first-person singular present indicative of verser
2. third-person singular present indicative of verser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of verser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of verser
5. second-person singular imperative of verser

• resve, rêves, rêvés, serve

vers +‎ -e (possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛrʃɛ]
• Hyphenation: ver‧se

verse

1. third-person singular (single possession) possessive of vers

verse

1. vocative masculine singular of versus

verse

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of versar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of versar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of versar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of versar

verse (first-person singular present me veo, first-person singular preterite me vi, past participle visto)

1. to meet; to see one another

• ver

verse

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of versar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of versar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of versar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of versar.