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abraided

abraided is the simple past and past participle of abraid.

Meaning of abraid

Verb

abraid (third-person singular simple present abraids, present participle abraiding, simple past and past participle abraided or abraid)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To wrench (something) out.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To unsheathe a blade, draw a weapon.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To wake up.
    • She ferde as she had stert out of a sleep, / Til she out of hire mazednesse abreyde.1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Clerke of Oxenfordes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of...
  4. (archaic, intransitive) To spring, start, make a sudden movement.
  5. (intransitive, obsolete, transitive) To shout out.
  6. (obsolete, transitive) To rise in the stomach with nausea.

Questions about abraided

What is abraided the simple past and past participle of?
Abraided is the simple past and past participle of abraid.

Words near abraided in the dictionary

  1. Abrahamyan
  2. Abrahamyans
  3. Abrahan
  4. Abrahart
  5. abraid
  6. abraided
  7. abraiding
  8. abraids
  9. abram
  10. Abram cove
  11. Abram coves

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