shoe

shoe is on the Basic English 850 List.

shock - shoe - short

shoe is one of the 1000 most common headwords.

sheet - shoe - shoot

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /ʃuː/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophone: shoo

Noun

Singular shoe

Plural shoes

1. Two shoes are two things that someone wears on their feet. Shoes have a hard, flat bottom.

Verb

Plain form shoe

Third-person singular shoes

Past tense shod

Past participle shod

Present participle shoeing

Plain form shoe

Third-person singular shoes

Past tense shod

Past participle shodden

Present participle shoeing

Plain form shoe

Third-person singular shoes

Past tense shoed

Past participle shoed

Present participle shoeing

1. (intransitive) If you shoe, you put shoes on your feet. We usually use this verb as a past participle: We say say someone is shod if they have shoes on their feet.

   He was dressed and shod, ready to go out.

2. (transitive) If you shoe a horse, you put horseshoes on the horse.
3. (transitive) To put protection on something so that it does not get worn down.

   Let's shoe that cane before you get a splinter in your hand!