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cudgelled

cudgelled is the simple past and past participle of cudgel.

Meaning of cudgel

Verb

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

  1. To strike with a cudgel.
    • The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters.
  2. To exercise (one's wits or brains) in an effort to force a memory or solution; to rack (one's mind).
    • “Most remarkable,” murmured Tarzan, cudgeling his brain for some pretext upon which to turn the subject.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 102

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Words formed from cudgelled

Phrases with cudgelled

Questions about cudgelled

What is cudgelled the simple past and past participle of?
Cudgelled is the simple past and past participle of cudgel.

Words near cudgelled in the dictionary

  1. cudgelers
  2. cudgeling
  3. cudgeling one's brain
  4. cudgeling one's brains
  5. cudgelings
  6. cudgelled
  7. cudgelled one's brain
  8. cudgelled one's brains
  9. cudgeller
  10. cudgellers
  11. cudgelling

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