bombased
bombased is the simple past and past participle of bombase.
Meaning of bombase
Verb
bombase (third-person singular simple present bombases, present participle bombasing, simple past and past participle bombased)
- To pad with, or as with, bombase.
- and though the owle seeme to be greater then the pigion, by reason of the thicknesse of her feathers, yet wyll they creepe in at as little a place as the pigion wyll, so small and little is theyr bodyes, though they be bombased with feathers.1577, Foure Bookes of Husbandry, collected by M. C. Heresbachius
- To astonish.
- For Bacchus then seemed alive agen: glasse bottle emptied of wine clashing one against another, the roaring of 200 Mules and Asses, and continuall shooting and whooping of above two thousand Plebeians all the way, so amazed us; that wee thought, never any civill strangers were bombased with such a...1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique, page 126
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- What is bombased the simple past and past participle of?
- Bombased is the simple past and past participle of bombase.
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