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cudgeled one's brain

cudgeled one's brain is the simple past and past participle of cudgel one's brain.

Meaning of cudgel one's brain

Verb

cudgel one's brain (third-person singular simple present cudgels one's brain, present participle (US) cudgeling one's brain or (UK) cudgelling one's brain, simple past and past participle (US) cudgeled one's brain or (UK) cudgelled one's brain)

  1. (UK, dated, figuratively) to think hard and try to remember something.

Questions about cudgeled one's brain

What is cudgeled one's brain the simple past and past participle of?
Cudgeled one's brain is the simple past and past participle of cudgel one's brain.

Words near cudgeled one's brain in the dictionary

  1. Cudgegong
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  7. cudgeled one's brains
  8. cudgeler
  9. cudgelers
  10. cudgeling
  11. cudgeling one's brain

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