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FISHTAIL
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they fishtail ... he / she / it fishtails
Past simple: fishtailed
Past participle: fishtailed
-ing form: fishtailing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slow down by moving the tail sideways
Example:
The airplane fishtailed on the runway
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "fishtail" is one way to...):
decelerate; slow down (reduce the speed of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
