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delimbed

delimbed is the simple past and past participle of delimb.

Meaning of delimb

Verb

delimb (third-person singular simple present delimbs, present participle delimbing, simple past and past participle delimbed)

  1. (transitive) To cut the limbs from.
    • Statues are decapitated and delimbed, hacksawed into pieces that can be carried off and sold for their weight, not their grace.2008 June 18, Jim Dwyer, “Bronze Eagles Owe Survival to Drug Dealer”, in New York Times

Questions about delimbed

What is delimbed the simple past and past participle of?
Delimbed is the simple past and past participle of delimb.

Words near delimbed in the dictionary

  1. Delilah
  2. Delilahs
  3. DeLillo
  4. DeLillos
  5. delimb
  6. delimbed
  7. delimbing
  8. delimbs
  9. delime
  10. delimed
  11. delimer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: delimbed (page history and authors); delimb (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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