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aftersaw

aftersaw is the simple past of aftersee.

Meaning of aftersee

Verb

aftersee (third-person singular simple present aftersees, present participle afterseeing, simple past aftersaw, past participle afterseen)

  1. (obsolete, transitive, uncommon) To see or witness after the fact or event; see in hindsight or retrospectively.
    • [...] of Durham if he will come, or send his brother to enter as one authorized for such a matter, and so to carry it away without delay; and cannot Mr. Cox see, or foresee, or aftersee what cause or colour might work such alteration?1847, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Memoirs of the life and times of Sir Christopher Hatton

Questions about aftersaw

What is aftersaw the simple past of?
Aftersaw is the simple past of aftersee.

Words near aftersaw in the dictionary

  1. afters
  2. aftersail
  3. aftersails
  4. aftersale
  5. aftersales
  6. aftersaw
  7. afterscent
  8. afterscents
  9. afterschool
  10. afterscript
  11. afterscripts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aftersaw (page history and authors); aftersee (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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