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bowstringed

bowstringed is the simple past and past participle of bowstring.

Meaning of bowstring

Verb

bowstring (third-person singular simple present bowstrings, present participle bowstringing, simple past and past participle bowstrung or bowstringed)

  1. (transitive) To strangle with a bowstring.
    • When the day broke […] it was high time for her to get up and be bowstrung—a thing very little more pleasant than hanging, only a trifle more genteel.1850, Edgar Allan Poe, The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade

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Adjective

bowstringed (not comparable)

  1. Supplied or fitted with a bowstring.

Questions about bowstringed

What does bowstringed mean?
Bowstringed means supplied or fitted with a bowstring.
What is bowstringed the simple past and past participle of?
Bowstringed is the simple past and past participle of bowstring.
What part of speech is bowstringed?
Bowstringed is an adjective.

Words near bowstringed in the dictionary

  1. bowstring bridge
  2. bowstring bridges
  3. bowstring hemp
  4. bowstring knot
  5. bowstring knots
  6. bowstringed
  7. bowstringer
  8. bowstringers
  9. bowstringing
  10. bowstrings
  11. bowstroke

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bowstringed (page history and authors); bowstring (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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