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rear-end

rear-end verb: of a vehicle, to strike (another vehicle) from behind.

Verb

rear-end (third-person singular simple present rear-ends, present participle rear-ending, simple past and past participle rear-ended)

  1. (transitive) Of a vehicle, to strike (another vehicle) from behind.

Forms of rear-end

third-person singular presentrear-ends
present participlerear-ending
past participlerear-ended
pastrear-ended

Questions about rear-end

What does rear-end mean?
Rear-end means of a vehicle, to strike (another vehicle) from behind.
What part of speech is rear-end?
Rear-end is a verb.
What is the past tense of rear-end?
The past tense of rear-end is rear-ended.

Words near rear-end in the dictionary

  1. rear vision mirror
  2. rear vision mirrors
  3. rear wheel
  4. rear wheels
  5. rear'd
  6. rear-end
  7. rear-ended
  8. rear-ender
  9. rear-enders
  10. rear-ending
  11. rear-ends

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