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caballed

caballed is the simple past and past participle of cabal.

Meaning of cabal

Verb

cabal (third-person singular simple present cabals, present participle (US) cabaling or (UK) caballing, simple past and past participle (US) cabaled or (UK) caballed)

  1. (intransitive) To engage in the activities of a cabal.
    • [W]e think it very unbecoming our Prudence, that the Determination ſhould be remitted to the Authors themſelves; when our Adversaries, by Briguing and Caballing, have cauſed so univerſal a Defection from us, that the greater Part of our Society has already deſerted to them, […]1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section I. The Introduction.”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 45

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Questions about caballed

What is caballed the simple past and past participle of?
Caballed is the simple past and past participle of cabal.

Words near caballed in the dictionary

  1. cabalizes
  2. cabalizing
  3. caballada
  4. caballadas
  5. caballard
  6. caballed
  7. caballer
  8. caballeria
  9. Caballerial
  10. Caballerials
  11. caballerias

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caballed (page history and authors); cabal (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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