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bastilled

bastilled is the simple past and past participle of bastille.

Meaning of bastille

Verb

bastille (third-person singular simple present bastilles, present participle bastilling, simple past and past participle bastilled)

  1. (also, figuratively, transitive) To confine (someone or something) in, or as if in, a bastille (noun sense 2.1) or prison; to imprison.
    • Inſtead of forging Chains for Foreigners, / Baſtile thy Tutor: Grandeur All thy Aim?1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Ninth and Last. The Consolation. Containing, among Other Things, I. A Moral Survey of the Nocturnal Heavens. II. A Night-Address to the Deity. […]”, in The Complaint...

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Forms of bastilled

alternative formbastiled

Questions about bastilled

What is bastilled the simple past and past participle of?
Bastilled is the simple past and past participle of bastille.

Words near bastilled in the dictionary

  1. bastiled
  2. bastiles
  3. bastiling
  4. bastille
  5. Bastille Day
  6. bastilled
  7. bastilles
  8. bastilling
  9. bastillion
  10. bastillions
  11. Bastin

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