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abraids

abraids is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 abraids

What is abraids the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Abraids is the third-person singular simple present indicative of abraid.

Words near abraids in the dictionary

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

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