steeplechase
noun
a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
steeplechased
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past participleof steeplechase.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof steeplechase.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
steeplechasenouna horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
Example Sentences
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My blood steeplechased in my veins as I waited for him to deal me the hand that might decide my fate.
From Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Thomas William Lawson
I've steeplechased, raced, and 'run horses', but I think the most dashing of all Was the ride when the old fellow saved me from Gilbert, O'Maley and Hall!
From Rio Grande's Last Race & Other Verses by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson
Where before life had glided, now it steeplechased, taking its days bull-headed, and Paul grew to the age of four as a bamboo grows, in leaps.
From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories by Perceval Gibbon
