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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

high-center en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To cause (a vehicle) to become stranded with all wheels off the ground.
    • What does he think, that we're setting him up, that he'll ease his truck along the dirt road, high-center it in a rut, and then get jumped and die defending his pizzas? 2010, Darrell Spencer, CAUTION Men in Trees, →ISBN, page 113:
    • For example, positive obstacles such as fallen trees directly along the prescribed path would high-center the vehicle and negative obstacles such as culverts near certain intersections in the Urban course went undetected and became hazards for the XUV. 2006, Raj Madhavan, Elena R. Messina, James Sacra Albus, Intelligent Vehicle Systems: A 4D/RCS Approach, →ISBN, page 274:
    • I had to be careful driving toward the river so I wouldn't high-center the car on a boulder and break the crankcase. 2009, Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, →ISBN, page 83:
  2. (intransitive) To become stranded with all wheels off the ground.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
high-centers Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
high-centering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
high-centered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
high-centered Tense=Past lexicographic