beaver
(biːvəʳ )
Word forms: beavers , beavering , beavered
1. countable noun
A beaver is a furry animal with a big flat tail and large teeth. Beavers use their teeth to cut wood and build dams in rivers.
2. uncountable noun
Beaver is the fur of a beaver.
...a coat with a huge beaver collar.
Phrasal verbs:
beaver away
phrasal verb
If you are beavering away at something, you are working very hard at it.
For more than a decade, Avery has been beavering away at an epic project. [V P + at/on]
They are beavering away to get everything ready for us. [VERB PARTICLE]
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Idioms:
an eager beaver
someone who is very enthusiastic about work or very anxious to please other people
George was like a sneaky kid. He lied, boasted, was an eager beaver without the ability to live up to his promises.
Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
Translations:
Chinese: 海狸
Japanese: ビーバー
- complicated procedure
- complicated process
- complicated recipe
- complicated relationship
- complicated rule
- complicated situation
- complicated story
- complicated structure
- complicated subject
- complicated system
- complicated task
- complicated web of
- complicate life
- complicate the issue
- complicate the matter
- complicate the picture
- complicate things
- complication
- complications ensue
- complications occur
- complications related to
- complicit
- complicity
- compliment
- complimentary