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ews

ews is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ew.

Meaning of ew

Verb

ew (third-person singular simple present ews, present participle ewwing, simple past and past participle ewwed)

  1. (ambitransitive, colloquial, rare) To express disgust (at someone or something) by saying ew.
    • “Brad went into a seething rage, as you do,” said Jack “and followed Harvey out of the restaurant, down the road and …” / “… Killed him with a muttonbird,” added Matahina / “A brick, then a muttonbird,” corrected Jack, to her horror. / “Ew!” she ewwed.2012, Simon Dodd, Death by Muttonbird: A Lord Howe Island Murder Mystery, Sydney, N.S.W.: DBMB Publishing, →ISBN, page 201

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Noun capitalized: EWS

EWS

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of early warning system.
  2. (UK, abbreviation, initialism, obsolete) Initialism of emergency water supply (World War II, for fires).
  3. (abbreviation, initialism, Indian politics) Initialism of economically weaker section.

Proper noun capitalized: EWS

EWS

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Exchange Web Services, an API for the Microsoft Exchange e-mail server.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Early West Saxon.

Questions about ews

What is ews the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Ews is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ew.
What part of speech is ews?
Ews can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near ews in the dictionary

  1. EWPs
  2. ewre
  3. ewres
  4. ewries
  5. ewry
  6. ews
  7. Ewshot
  8. ewt
  9. ewte
  10. ewts
  11. EWU

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ews (page history and authors); EWS (page history and authors); ew (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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