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turn the cold shoulder on someone en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of give someone the cold shoulder.
    • Casaubon has devilish good reasons, you may be sure, for turning the cold shoulder on a young fellow whose bringing-up he paid for. 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to VIII):

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
turns the cold shoulder on someone Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
turning the cold shoulder on someone Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
turned the cold shoulder on someone Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
turned the cold shoulder on someone Tense=Past lexicographic