to tree
- verb
- /triː/
- Specialized
- I always tree my shoes after wearing them.
Examples
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You should tree your leather boots overnight to keep them looking new.
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The cobbler carefully treed the shoes to help them retain their original shape.
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After cleaning, he treeed each shoe before putting them away.
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He trees his favorite pair of boots regularly.
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After hiking for hours, I decided to tree my shoes to help them keep their shape.
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Make sure to tree your leather shoes to prevent them from losing form.
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She always remembers to tree her new shoes before storing them away.
Synonyms
Make something longer or wider by pulling it
To make something longer by stretching or pulling it
Idioms
Children often look and behave like their parents
To make ripe fruit or other things fall from a tree by moving its branches quickly
Compounds
A large strong tree with leaves that have deep rounded edges and small nuts called acorns
- Offensive
A person who wants to protect trees and nature, sometimes used as an insult
A large tree with broad leaves and strong wood often planted in parks and streets for shade
A large tree that makes nuts you can eat in prickly cases and has leaves that turn brown in autumn
A South American tree that gives a sticky white liquid used to make natural rubber
A large leafy tree with heart-shaped leaves and sweet-smelling yellow flowers often planted for shade
- US
A large branching desert plant with spiky leaves and white flower clusters that grows in the southwestern United States
A large tree with pale, peeling bark, broad leaves, and round seed balls that gives shade
- Literature
The tree in the Garden of Eden whose fruit made Adam and Eve able to tell right from wrong
- Jargon
A rule that stops courts from using evidence found illegally
- Australian
An animal like a kangaroo that lives in trees in New Guinea and northern Australia
A slow-moving animal that lives in trees in Central and South America and hangs upside down to eat leaves
- US
A tall North American tree that has large yellow and green tulip-shaped flowers and soft pale wood for furniture
A tropical tree that makes large starchy fruit that become like bread when cooked
A wild North American cherry tree with small dark berries that taste bitter and attract birds
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb tree for shoes comes from the 'shoetree', a wooden form shaped like a foot, because the 'tree' here is a piece of wood used to hold a shoe's shape. So to tree your shoes means to put them on that wooden form to keep their shape.