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order about

order about verb: to bully (someone); to be bossy toward (someone); to dominate (someone).

Verb

order about (third-person singular simple present orders about, present participle ordering about, simple past and past participle ordered about)

  1. (transitive) To bully (someone); to be bossy toward (someone); to dominate (someone).

Forms of order about

third-person singular presentorders about
present participleordering about
past participleordered about
pastordered about

Questions about order about

What does order about mean?
Order about means to bully (someone); to be bossy toward (someone); to dominate (someone).
What part of speech is order about?
Order about is a verb.
What is the past tense of order about?
The past tense of order about is ordered about.

Words near order about in the dictionary

  1. ordeal trees
  2. ordeals
  3. ordenance
  4. Ordensstaat
  5. order
  6. order about
  7. order arms
  8. order around
  9. order book
  10. order books
  11. order consolidation

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