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bugled

bugled is the simple past and past participle of bugle.

Adjective

bugled (comparative more bugled, superlative most bugled)

  1. Ornamented with bugles.
  2. Played by a bugle.

Meaning of bugle

Verb

bugle (third-person singular simple present bugles, present participle bugling, simple past and past participle bugled)

  1. To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.
    • “It was as though the very constellations knew our impending sorrow,” he bugled, his head raised to the ceiling, his voice full-throated.1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 128
    Synonyms:
    trumpet

See all 9 meanings of bugle

Forms of bugled

comparativemore bugled
superlativemost bugled

Questions about bugled

What does bugled mean?
Bugled means ornamented with bugles.
What is bugled the simple past and past participle of?
Bugled is the simple past and past participle of bugle.
What part of speech is bugled?
Bugled is an adjective.

Words near bugled in the dictionary

  1. bugle players
  2. bugle scale
  3. bugle scales
  4. bugle-player
  5. bugle-players
  6. bugled
  7. bugler
  8. buglers
  9. bugles
  10. bugless
  11. buglessness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bugled (page history and authors); bugle (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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