acuted

acuted is the simple past and past participle of acute.

Adjective

acuted (not comparable)

Of a written word: exhibiting acute accent.
Of a pronounced word: exhibiting a language-specific type of pitch accent or tone characterized by an acute accent mark in the respective language transcription or orthography.
- I do not suppose the Greeks altered the letters in exactly the same way, but rather that their acuted οί inclined toward the modern sound, or that the Ο was attenuated or altogether lost in it. The diphthong in unaccented syllables probably resembled the acuted rather than the circumflex; for...1866, C[harles] B[agot] Cayley, “IX.—On the Verification of Homeric Accentuation.”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, London; Berlin: Published for the [Philological] Society by Asher &...

acute (third-person singular simple present acutes, present participle acuting, simple past and past participle acuted)

(transitive) To give an acute sound to.
- He acutes his rising inflection too much.
(archaic, transitive) To make acute; to sharpen, to whet.
- [A]n old Farmer […] uſed, when fuddled over Night, to walk naked, or only in his Shirt, until he had cooled himſelf throughly, […] This Courſe may not be improperly call'd a Balenum Aerium, and may be of great Uſe to ſober People, as well as the Fuddlers; for running empty, after Sleep and...1732, John Floyer, Edward Baynard, “[The Appendix.] The Other Cure Wrought by the Cold Bath, was upon Mrs. Taylor, a Young Gentlewoman that Boarded at My Father’s”, in ΨΥΧΡΟΛΟΥΣΙ´Α [PSYCHROLOUSIA]...

What does acuted mean?: Acuted means of a written word: exhibiting acute accent.
What is acuted the simple past and past participle of?: Acuted is the simple past and past participle of acute.
What part of speech is acuted?: Acuted is an adjective.

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