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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
tennis .
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Examples
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he played poker with no major lawyers; he 'tennised' with no powerhouse agents; he supped not with writers or thespians.
NYT > Home Page By BRUCE WEBER 2010
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he played poker with no major lawyers; he 'tennised' with no powerhouse agents; he supped not with writers or thespians.
NYT > Home Page By BRUCE WEBER 2010
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And, after all, the Jessie Heaths of this world are walked with, and golfed with, and ridden with, and tennised with, and told that they're wonderful pals.
Gigolo Edna Ferber 1926
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On the other hand the boy was over-tennised and stale and it proved his undoing, for after one set, which he won easily, the sting went out of his game and Davis took the match in four sets.
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They tore up the place for amateur theatricals; they disappeared in the gardens when they ought to have been rehearsing; they swept off every available horse and vehicle, especially the governess-cart and the fat pony; they fell into the trout-ponds; they picnicked and they tennised; and they sat on gates in the twilight, two by two, and Georgie found that he was not in the least necessary to their entertainment.
The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900
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But, my concern is he is over tennised and over-trained at this point, "he added.
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