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cudgelled one's brain

cudgelled 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 cudgelled one's brain

What is cudgelled one's brain the simple past and past participle of?
Cudgelled one's brain is the simple past and past participle of cudgel one's brain.

Words near cudgelled one's brain in the dictionary

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