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bowstrung

bowstrung 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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Questions about bowstrung

What is bowstrung the simple past and past participle of?
Bowstrung is the simple past and past participle of bowstring.

Words near bowstrung in the dictionary

  1. bowstringers
  2. bowstringing
  3. bowstrings
  4. bowstroke
  5. bowstrokes
  6. bowstrung
  7. bowswoman
  8. bowswomen
  9. bowsy
  10. bowt
  11. bowtel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bowstrung (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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