eager

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative

more eager

Superlative

most eager

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

eagers

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

eager

past (v2)

eagered

past participle (v3)

eagered

present participle

eagering

3rd person singular

eagers

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.

   • The hounds were eager in the chase.
   • Stacey is very eager to go cycling this weekend.
   • When to her eager lips is brought / Her infant's thrilling kiss.

2. 2.Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.

   • I would hope that my teachers were eager to work.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To express eagerness.

   • His hair crinkled towards her fondly. "Yes," he eagered.
   • Peg! eager voices eagered voicely.

2. 2.To be or become eager.

   • After entering college, I eagered to have a parttime job.
   • The buggy jolted on, the stout, wellkept team eagering, homing, barning.
   • Our spirits fret and chafe like sea waves on the rocks eagering to climb the shore.

3. 3.To make or encourage to be eager

   • But they only eagered him to be off .
   • Physicians also admit to eagering patients to turn to specialised web sites in order to read further.
   • Its presence gave him no thought of condemnation, but only eagered his longing for the redemption body.

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.Alternative form of eagre (“tidal bor”).

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