(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
A ~ is a place where birds or bats rest or sleep.
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2.
When birds or bats ~ somewhere, they rest or sleep there.
The peacocks ~ in nearby shrubs.
VERB: V prep/adv
3.
If bad or wrong things that someone has done in the past have come home to ~, or if their chickens have come home to ~, they are now experiencing the unpleasant effects of these actions.
Appeasement has come home to ~...
PHRASE: come inflects
4.
If you say that someone rules the ~ in a particular place, you mean that they have control and authority over the people there. (INFORMAL)
Today the country’s nationalists rule the ~ and hand out the jobs.
PHRASE: V inflects