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sellest

sellest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of sell.

Meaning of sell

Verb

sell (third-person singular simple present sells, present participle selling, simple past and past participle sold)

  1. (ditransitive, intransitive, transitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
    • She sold her old car very quickly.
    Synonyms:
    peddle, vend
  2. (ergative) To be sold.
    • This old stock will never sell.
  3. (transitive) To promote (a product or service) although not being paid in any direct way or at all.
    • Howard: You're gonna feel terrible when I'm in a wheelchair. Which, by the way, would fit easily in the back of this award-winning minivan.
      Bernadette: Fine, we'll go to the E.R. Just stop selling me on the van.
      Howard: You're right. It sells itself.2016, “The Fetal Kick Catalyst”, in The Big Bang Theory
  4. (transitive) To promote (a particular viewpoint).
    • My boss is very old-fashioned and I'm having a lot of trouble selling the idea of working at home occasionally.
  5. (transitive) To betray for money or other things.
  6. (slang, transitive) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
    • Then weaues
      Other crosse-plots
      New tricks for safety, are sought;
      They thriue: When, bold,
      Each tempt's th'other againe, and all are sold.1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page)

See all 16 meanings of sell

Origin of sellest

From sell + -est.

Questions about sellest

What is sellest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Sellest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of sell.

Words near sellest in the dictionary

  1. Sellerses
  2. sellery
  3. selles
  4. Selles-sur-Cher
  5. Selles-sur-Chers
  6. sellest
  7. selleth
  8. Selley
  9. Selleys
  10. Sellgren
  11. Sellgrens

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