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aped

/eɪpt/

aped is the simple past and past participle of ape.

Meaning of ape

Verb

ape (third-person singular simple present apes, present participle aping or (uncommon) apeing, simple past and past participle aped)

  1. (intransitive) To behave like an ape.
  2. (transitive) To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly.
    • And well their dignity it ſuits, / To ape the gravity of brutes.1772, [Thomas Bridges], “Something by Way of Preface”, in A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: Printed for S. Hooper, […], →OCLC

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Words that rhyme with aped

Questions about aped

What is aped the simple past and past participle of?
Aped is the simple past and past participle of ape.
How do you pronounce aped?
Aped is pronounced /eɪpt/.

Words near aped in the dictionary

  1. ape-people
  2. ape-person
  3. ape-persons
  4. apeak
  5. APEC
  6. aped
  7. Apedale
  8. apedicellate
  9. apedom
  10. apeek
  11. apefirmative action

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aped (page history and authors); ape (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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