dowered
dowered is the simple past and past participle of dower.
Meaning of dower
Verb
dower (third-person singular simple present dowers, present participle dowering, simple past and past participle dowered)
- To give a dower or dowry to.
- He had married a lady well educated and softly nurtured, but not dowered with worldly wealth.1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage
- To endow.
- It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside laws.1927, H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space
Words formed from dowered
Questions about dowered
- What is dowered the simple past and past participle of?
- Dowered is the simple past and past participle of dower.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: dowered (page history and authors); dower (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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