2syllables
sported
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Definitions ofsported
1verb
- To amuse oneself, to play.
Example: "children sporting on the green"
- To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
Example: "Jen sports with Bill's emotions."
- To display; to have as a notable feature.
Example: "Jen's sporting a new pair of shoes; he was sporting a new wound from the combat"
- To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
- To represent by any kind of play.
- To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
- To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
- To close (a door).
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