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roof over

roof over verb: to place a roof over an outdoor area.

Verb

roof over (third-person singular simple present roofs over, present participle roofing over, simple past and past participle roofed over)

  1. To place a roof over an outdoor area.
    • Although the extension to Crewe carried the line much nearer to the town, it was decided to retain this station, and a large enclosure there was roofed over to accommodate third class passengers (the M.B.R. was more generous than most railways in its treatment of what were then known as the "lower...1957 September, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 618

Forms of roof over

third-person singular presentroofs over
present participleroofing over
past participleroofed over
pastroofed over

Questions about roof over

What does roof over mean?
Roof over means to place a roof over an outdoor area.
What part of speech is roof over?
Roof over is a verb.
What is the past tense of roof over?
The past tense of roof over is roofed over.

Words near roof over in the dictionary

  1. roof knocking
  2. roof light
  3. roof lights
  4. roof of the mouth
  5. Roof of the World
  6. roof over
  7. roof over one's head
  8. roof over the head
  9. roof prism
  10. roof prisms
  11. roof rabbit

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