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ply someone with something

to give someone a lot of something. We were plied with coffee, doughnuts, and refreshments. He plied me with liquor, hoping to get me drunk.

Usage notes: often used in the form ply someone with questions to ask someone a lot of questions: Anxious to hear the latest news, they plied us with questions.

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As soon as it was midnight, there came in two little naked dwarfs; and they sat themselves upon the shoemaker's bench, took up all the work that was cut out, and began to ply with their little fingers, stitching and rapping and tapping away at such a rate, that the shoemaker was all wonder, and could not take his eyes off them. Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context Within the reef there is an expanse of smooth water, like that of a lake, where the canoes of the natives can ply with safety and where ships anchor. The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context More results

References in classic literature

As soon as it was midnight, there came in two little naked dwarfs; and they sat themselves upon the shoemaker's bench, took up all the work that was cut out, and began to ply with their little fingers, stitching and rapping and tapping away at such a rate, that the shoemaker was all wonder, and could not take his eyes off them.

Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context

Within the reef there is an expanse of smooth water, like that of a lake, where the canoes of the natives can ply with safety and where ships anchor.

The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context

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