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daggered

daggered adjective: wearing or carrying a dagger. Also the simple past and past participle of dagger.

Adjective

daggered (not comparable)

  1. Wearing or carrying a dagger.
    • It is true we wear a “dagger,” but we deny ever having been in our life an aggressor upon any man; so that if we be a “daggered assassin,” we ask the Governor to produce the proofs!1845 July 22, [Cassius Marcellus Clay], “Thomas Metcalfe Again!”, in The True American, volume I, number 8, Lexington, Ky., page [3], column 1
    • Yet in the plenitude of its philanthropy it allows the worse than daggered assassin to enter the home of our adopted citizens, and administer that bane which deprives them of health and life.1848 May 10, An Adopted Citizen [pseudonym], “Empiricism in Boston”, in J[erome] V[an] C[rowninsfield] Smith, editor, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, volume XXXVIII, number 15, Boston...

Also used as

daggered is also the simple past and past participle of dagger.

Examples of daggered in a sentence

  • Then the dream returned to her, like some daggered thief.1982, Adam Corby, The Divine Queen (Canto Two of The Doom-Quest of Ara-Karn; a dark romance), New York, N.Y.: Timescape Books, →ISBN, page...
  • Omniheckren’s minion would not have caught the daggered man in time enough had the young Agnarogian woman not stilled time itself to prevent the attack.2007, Nathaniel Washup, A New Beginning to an Old Ending: Book of Airik, Bloomington, Ind.; Milton Keynes, Bucks: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page...
  • Had we really two or so years together, before the indulgences of her previous existence caught up with her, like a daggered assassin who treads only a step behind?2017, K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter, Grim Expectations (The George Dower Trilogy; 3), Nottingham, Notts.: Angry Robot, →ISBN, page 36:

Origin of daggered

From dagger + -ed.

Questions about daggered

What does daggered mean?
Daggered means wearing or carrying a dagger.
How do you use daggered in a sentence?
Then the dream returned to her, like some daggered thief.
What part of speech is daggered?
Daggered is an adjective.

Words near daggered in the dictionary

  1. daggerblade grass shrimp
  2. daggerblade grass shrimps
  3. daggerblades
  4. daggerboard
  5. daggerboards
  6. daggered
  7. daggering
  8. daggerings
  9. daggerless
  10. daggerlike
  11. daggerman

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