Shakespearean Contraction Crossword Clue

• To possess, own.

• To hold, as something at someone's disposal.

• Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.

• To partake of (a particular substance, especially food or drink, or action or activity).

• To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.

• To experience, go through, undergo.

• To be afflicted with, suffer from.

• (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.

• Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)

• (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.

• To give birth to.

• To engage in sexual intercourse with.

• To accept as a romantic partner.

• (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.

• (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.

• (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)

• (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.

• To defeat in a fight; take.

• (obsolete outside Ireland) To be able to speak (a language).

• To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.

• To trick, to deceive.

• (often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.

• (often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.

• To host someone; to take in as a guest.

• To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.

• (of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.

• To make an observation of (a bird species).