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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
bilge .
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Examples
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Unhappily, there was one man in the present first class who had managed to remain in the Academy in spite of conduct which would have "bilged"
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Only for an instant are their eyes upon it, before it is seen no more, having "bilged" and gone under, leaving but bubbles to mark the place of its disappearance.
The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure Mayne Reid 1850
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The truck bellowed and bilged and created a very real cloud of insecticide, which we followed with great diligence.
Havana Salsa Viviana Carballo 2006
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The truck bellowed and bilged and created a very real cloud of insecticide, which we followed with great diligence.
Havana Salsa Viviana Carballo 2006
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The truck bellowed and bilged and created a very real cloud of insecticide, which we followed with great diligence.
Havana Salsa Viviana Carballo 2006
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Northward of the said gate, and was like to be bilged and lost.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Barrier Reef; made several attempts to get the schooner off, got the bower anchors out astern, but in spite of all our efforts the vessel forged further on the reef, and bilged.
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After a short time, it was discovered that the ship was thrown on a reef of rocks, and had bilged; and although the water entered her through the holes which the rocks had made, and filled her up to the lower beams, yet that it soon smothered, and, the bilge pieces keeping her upright, she lay comparatively quiet.
The Wreck on the Andamans Joseph Darvall
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Had she taken the rock with her bottom, she would most likely have bilged, or upset, and it is a great question, whether our lives, but particularly the lives of the little children, could have been saved, the sea running very high.
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This accident, together with the crazy condition of the ship, which was little better than a wreck, prevented her from getting off to sea, and entangled her more and more with the land, so that the next morning at daybreak she struck on a sunken rock, and soon after bilged and grounded between two small islands at about a musket-shot from the shore.
Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced Richard Walter
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