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tides over

tides over is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tide over.

Meaning of tide over

Verb

tide over (third-person singular simple present tides over, present participle tiding over, simple past and past participle tided over)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To support or sustain (someone), especially financially, for a limited period.
    • Could you lend me ten pounds to tide me over till payday?
  2. (transitive, obsolete outside India) To endure; weather.
    • I had a certain grim pleasure in reading letters from two or three literary men, asking for work ‘as secretary or companion,’ or failing that, for the loan of a little cash to ‘tide over present difficulties.’1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published...

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What is tides over the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Tides over is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tide over.

Words near tides over in the dictionary

  1. tideraces
  2. tiderip
  3. tiderips
  4. tiders
  5. tides
  6. tides over
  7. tidesman
  8. tidesmen
  9. tidesurveyor
  10. tidesurveyors
  11. Tideswell

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