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nimbles

nimbles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of nimble.

Meaning of nimble

Verb

nimble (third-person singular simple present nimbles, present participle nimbling, simple past and past participle nimbled)

  1. (intransitive) To move nimbly.
    • Their teeth are regularly and assiduously cleaned by shrimp that nimble in and out of the moray's mouth like ballet dancers in the jaws of a mechanical stage dragon.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 72

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Questions about nimbles

What is nimbles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Nimbles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of nimble.

Words near nimbles in the dictionary

  1. nimble-wittedness
  2. nimbled
  3. nimbleness
  4. nimblenesses
  5. nimbler
  6. nimbles
  7. nimblesome
  8. nimbless
  9. nimblesses
  10. nimblest
  11. nimblewill

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