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arrowed

arrowed is the simple past and past participle of arrow.

Adjective

arrowed (comparative more arrowed, superlative most arrowed)

  1. Equipped with arrows
  2. Pointed to by an arrow (in a diagram)
  3. (nonstandard) To have been hit by one or more arrows.

Meaning of arrow

Verb

arrow (third-person singular simple present arrows, present participle arrowing, simple past and past participle arrowed)

  1. (intransitive) To move swiftly and directly (like an arrow).
    • Above his head, a startled bird arrows up, into the sun.2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 279
  2. (transitive) To let fly swiftly and directly.
    • Jermain Defoe dinked in an equaliser and Gareth Bale hit the crossbar for the hosts before Elliott Bennett arrowed in Norwich's winner.2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport
  3. (intransitive) To develop an inflorescence.
    • The more vigorous and luxuriant the vegetation of a field of canes, the less will the tendency to flowering be shewn; whereas nearly all the canes will be found to arrow if the soil be poor and the vegetation meagre.1848, Louis Antoine A.G. De Verteuil, Three essays on the cultivation of the sugar-cane in Trinidad, page 12
  4. (intransitive) To navigate using the arrow keys.
    • Arrow left until you reach the start of the text you want to delete.
  5. (Singapore, Singlish, transitive) To single out or nominate (someone) to be responsible for something, especially an undesirable task.
    • Just because I never come for meeting … my boss arrow me to do this job.2011, Susan Tsang, Audrey Perera, Singapore at Random, →ISBN, page 36

See all 18 meanings of arrow

Forms of arrowed

comparativemore arrowed
superlativemost arrowed

Words formed from arrowed

Questions about arrowed

What does arrowed mean?
Arrowed means equipped with arrows.
What is arrowed the simple past and past participle of?
Arrowed is the simple past and past participle of arrow.
What part of speech is arrowed?
Arrowed is an adjective.

Words near arrowed in the dictionary

  1. arrow-straight
  2. arrow-wood
  3. arrowback
  4. arrowbacks
  5. arrowe
  6. arrowed
  7. arrowes
  8. arrowgrass
  9. arrowgrasses
  10. arrowhead
  11. arrowheaded

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Adapted from Wiktionary: arrowed (page history and authors); arrow (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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