Word.ws English Dictionary

aversed

aversed is the simple past and past participle of averse.

Meaning of averse

Verb

averse (third-person singular simple present averses, present participle aversing, simple past and past participle aversed)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To turn away.
    • […] and, in this panegyrick of the Teutonick blood, I have so prolixly insisted, not only to vindicate our own, as being a stream of the same, and to evince the nobility thereof, but withal to convince the folly of those wretches among us, who aversing ours do so much adhere unto, and dote upon...1808, The Harleian miscellany

See all 5 meanings of averse

Questions about aversed

What is aversed the simple past and past participle of?
Aversed is the simple past and past participle of averse.

Words near aversed in the dictionary

  1. aversant
  2. Aversas
  3. aversation
  4. aversations
  5. averse
  6. aversed
  7. aversely
  8. averseness
  9. aversenesses
  10. averses
  11. aversing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: aversed (page history and authors); averse (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “aversed.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/aversed. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.