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addeem

/əˈdiːm/

addeem verb: to adjudge; to try, test.

Verb

addeem (third-person singular simple present addeems, present participle addeeming, simple past and past participle addeemed)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To adjudge; to try, test.
    • So unto him they did addeeme the prise
      Of all that Tryumph.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • Legacy is not addeemed by gift before execution of will.1892, Willard Smith Gibbons, Charles Hood Mills, William Henry Silvernail, Digest of the New York State reporter
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To deem; think; judge; esteem; account; determine; be of an opinion.

Forms of addeem

third-person singular presentaddeems
present participleaddeeming
past participleaddeemed
pastaddeemed

Origin of addeem

From Middle English *ademen, from Old English ādēman (“to judge, adjudge, doom, deem, try, adjudicate”); equivalent to a- + deem.

Words that rhyme with addeem

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Questions about addeem

What does addeem mean?
Addeem means to adjudge; to try, test.
What part of speech is addeem?
Addeem is a verb.
How do you pronounce addeem?
Addeem is pronounced /əˈdiːm/.
What is the past tense of addeem?
The past tense of addeem is addeemed.

Words near addeem in the dictionary

  1. added up
  2. added up to
  3. added value
  4. addedly
  5. addedst
  6. addeem
  7. addeemed
  8. addeeming
  9. addeems
  10. addend
  11. addenda

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