shoe

shoe is part of the Basic English 850.

shoe is one of the 1000 most common headwords.

shoe

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʃuː/
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Homophones

• shoo

Noun

Singular shoe

Plural shoes

A shoe

1. Two shoes are two things that someone wears on their feet. Shoes have a hard, flat bottom.

Verb

Plain form shoe

Third-person singular shoes

Past tense shod

Past participle shod

Present participle shoeing

1. To put horseshoes on a horse.

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Plain form shoe

Third-person singular shoes

Past tense shoed

Past participle shoed

Present participle shoeing

1. To put protection on an object so that it does not get worn down.

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