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diversed

diversed is the simple past and past participle of diverse.

Meaning of diverse

Verb

diverse (third-person singular simple present diverses, present participle diversing, simple past and past participle diversed)

  1. (transitive) To make (something) different or varied in form or quality; to alter, to change, to vary.
    • I Dyuerſe[,] I make difference⸝ Ie diuerſifie, prime coniu.1530 July 28 (Gregorian calendar), Iohan Palsgraue [i.e., John Palsgrave], “The Table of Verbes”, in Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse⸝ […], [London]: […] [Richard Pynson] fynnysshed by Iohan...
  2. (transitive) To make the scope of (business, investments, etc.) different or varied, especially so as to balance and mitigate risks.
    • The investors in the SPC [special purpose company] derive their return, and well as diversing their risk, from three factors.2001, Marcel Jeucken, “Sustainability, Markets and Banking Products”, in Sustainable Finance and Banking: The Financial Sector and the Future of the Planet, London; Sterling, Va.: Earthscan...
  3. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To go a different route or way from someone else; to diverge, to separate.
    • Then each to other vvell affectionate, / Friendſhip profeſſed vvith vnfained hart, / The Redcroſſe knight diuerſt, but forth rode Britomart.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 62, page 443

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Questions about diversed

What is diversed the simple past and past participle of?
Diversed is the simple past and past participle of diverse.

Words near diversed in the dictionary

  1. divers
  2. diversant
  3. diversants
  4. diversative
  5. diverse
  6. diversed
  7. diversely
  8. diverseness
  9. diversenesses
  10. divershitty
  11. diversicrat

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