shoe is on the Basic English 850 List.
shock - shoe - short
shoe is one of the 1000 most common headwords.
sheet - shoe - shoot

Pronunciation change

Noun change

Singular
shoe

Plural
shoes

 
A shoe
  1. Two shoes are two things that someone wears on their feet. Shoes have a hard, flat bottom.

Verb change

Plain form
shoe

Third-person singular
shoes

Past tense
shod

Past participle
shod

Present participle
shoeing

Plain form
shoe

Third-person singular
shoes

Past tense
shod

Past participle
shodden

Present participle
shoeing

Plain form
shoe

Third-person singular
shoes

Past tense
shoed

Past participle
shoed

Present participle
shoeing

  1. (intransitive) If you shoe, you put shoes on your feet. We usually use this verb as a past participle: We say say someone is shod if they have shoes on their feet.
    He was dressed and shod, ready to go out.
  2. (transitive) If you shoe a horse, you put horseshoes on the horse.
  3. (transitive) To put protection on something so that it does not get worn down.
    Let's shoe that cane before you get a splinter in your hand!