(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
If a person, event, or achievement is ~ed as important or successful, they are praised publicly.
Faulkner has been ~ed as the greatest American novelist of his generation...
US magazines ~ed her as the greatest rock’n’roll singer in the world...
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed as n, V n as n
2.
Hail consists of small balls of ice that fall like rain from the sky.
...a sharp short-lived storm with heavy ~.
N-UNCOUNT
3.
When it ~s, ~ falls like rain from the sky.
It started to ~, huge great stones.
VERB: it V
4.
A ~ of things, usually small objects, is a large number of them that hit you at the same time and with great force.
The victim was hit by a ~ of bullets...
N-SING: N of n
5.
Someone who ~s from a particular place was born there or lives there. (FORMAL)
I ~ from Brighton...
VERB: V from n
6.
If you ~ a taxi, you wave at it in order to stop it because you want the driver to take you somewhere.
I hurried away to ~ a taxi.
VERB: V n