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clubbed

/klʌbd/

clubbed is the simple past and past participle of club.

Meaning of club

Verb

club (third-person singular simple present clubs, present participle clubbing, simple past and past participle clubbed)

  1. (transitive) To hit with a club.
    • He clubbed the poor dog.
  2. To score a victory over by a large margin.
    • [Andy] Murray dropped serve only once in the match, in the 10th game of the third set, and was simply too good for [Stan] Wawrinka, who was left confused by the variety, inventiveness and power hitting of Murray from deep in the court as an opponent who clubbed [Novak] Djokovic in last year's final...2016 June 3, “Andy Murray enjoys stunning win against Stan Wawrinka to reach first French Open final”, in Eurosport
  3. (intransitive) To join together to form a group.
    • Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream / Of fancy, madly met, and clubb'd into a dream.1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC
  4. (intransitive, transitive) To combine into a club-shaped mass.
    • a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes
  5. (intransitive) To go to nightclubs.
    • We went clubbing in Ibiza.
  6. (intransitive) To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
    • The owl, the raven, and the bat / Clubb'd for a feather to his hat.1730, Jonathan Swift, Death and Daphne

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Adjective

clubbed (comparative more clubbed, superlative most clubbed)

  1. Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club.
    • Her legges that ye myght se;
      But they were sturdy and stubbed,
      Myghty pestels and clubbed,
      As fayre and as whyte
      As the fote of a kytea. 1529, John Skelton, The Tunning of Elinour Rumming
    Synonyms:
    clavate, claviform

Synonyms of clubbed

Forms of clubbed

comparativemore clubbed
superlativemost clubbed

Origin of clubbed

From Middle English clubbyd; equivalent to club + -ed.

Phrases with clubbed

Words that rhyme with clubbed

Questions about clubbed

What does clubbed mean?
Clubbed means shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club.
What is clubbed the simple past and past participle of?
Clubbed is the simple past and past participle of club.
What part of speech is clubbed?
Clubbed is an adjective.
How do you pronounce clubbed?
Clubbed is pronounced /klʌbd/.

Words near clubbed in the dictionary

  1. clubable
  2. Clubb
  3. clubbability
  4. clubbable
  5. clubbableness
  6. clubbed
  7. clubbed out
  8. clubbed together
  9. clubber
  10. clubbers
  11. clubbie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clubbed (page history and authors); club (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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