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doorstepped

doorstepped is the simple past and past participle of doorstep.

Meaning of doorstep

Verb

doorstep (third-person singular simple present doorsteps, present participle doorstepping, simple past and past participle doorstepped)

  1. (intransitive) To visit one household after another to solicit sales, charitable donations, political support, etc.
  2. (transitive) To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.
    • Throughout her time in journalism, she doorstepped politicians, the child of a politician, crime victims, armed robbers, murderers, suspected murderers...1998, Emily O'Reilly, Veronica Guerin: The Life and Death of a Crime Reporter

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Questions about doorstepped

What is doorstepped the simple past and past participle of?
Doorstepped is the simple past and past participle of doorstep.

Words near doorstepped in the dictionary

  1. doorsmen
  2. doorstaff
  3. doorstead
  4. doorsteads
  5. doorstep
  6. doorstepped
  7. doorstepper
  8. doorsteppers
  9. doorstepping
  10. doorsteppings
  11. doorsteppy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doorstepped (page history and authors); doorstep (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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