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rhyme

2 verb
     
Related topics: Literature
rhyme2 [not in progressive]
1 [intransitive]AL if two words or lines of poetry rhyme, they end with the same sound, including a vowel
rhyme with
'Hat' rhymes with 'cat'.
The song has rhyming couplets (=pairs of lines that end in words that rhyme).
2 [transitive]AL to put two or more words together to make them rhyme
rhyme something with something
You can't rhyme 'box' with 'backs'.
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