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imped; imping; imps
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: to graft or repair (a wing, tail, or feather) with a feather to improve a falcon's flying capacity
2
: to equip with wings
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imperative
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imperfect
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imperial
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import; imported
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Examples of imp in a Sentence
Noun
scooped up the little imp and took him to bed
a story about a crumbling mansion infested with a brood of imps
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Moran Zavdi, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
Bernard worked endless hours at the auction house because that’s what his evil imp of a boss (Alan Cumming) demanded.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Nov. 2023
Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017
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Noun
Imagine a mischievous imp lurking in the shadows, eager to eavesdrop on your whispers to the AI or peek at its replies.
—Moran Zavdi, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
Bernard worked endless hours at the auction house because that’s what his evil imp of a boss (Alan Cumming) demanded.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Nov. 2023
Verb
Imping, her father had called this sort of frenzied picking.
—Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017
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