nested
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Definitions ofnested
- (of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- To settle into a home.
Example: "We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!"
- To successively neatly fit inside another.
Example: "I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother."
- To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
Example: "There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes."
- To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- Embedded.
- Successively fitted one inside another.
- (Of a lexical item) contained within a dictionary entry as a subordinate term of the main headword.
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