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bugbeared

bugbeared is the simple past and past participle of bugbear.

Meaning of bugbear

Verb

bugbear (third-person singular simple present bugbears, present participle bugbearing, simple past and past participle bugbeared)

  1. (transitive) To alarm with idle phantoms.

See all 4 meanings of bugbear

Questions about bugbeared

What is bugbeared the simple past and past participle of?
Bugbeared is the simple past and past participle of bugbear.

Words near bugbeared in the dictionary

  1. Bugay
  2. Bugays
  3. bugbane
  4. bugbanes
  5. bugbear
  6. bugbeared
  7. bugbearing
  8. bugbearish
  9. bugbears
  10. Bugbee
  11. Bugbees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bugbeared (page history and authors); bugbear (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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