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roof

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roof is on the Basic English 850 List.
roll - roof - room

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Singular
roof

Plural
roofs or rooves

Roofs.
  1. (countable) A roof is the top part of a building.
    My five brothers, two sisters and seven cousins all live together under one roof.

Verb

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Plain form
roof

Third-person singular
roofs

Past tense
roofed

Past participle
roofed

Present participle
roofing

  1. If you roof something, then you are putting a roof onto a building.
    My father had to roof our house because it needed a roof.