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fanged

fanged adjective: equipped with fangs. Also the simple past and past participle of fang.

Adjective

fanged (not comparable)

  1. Equipped with fangs.
    • […]love, the tyrant and the tyrant-queller; love, until now my conqueror, now my slave; the hungry fire, the untameable beast, the fanged snake -- -no -- no -- I will have nothing to do with that love.1826, [Mary Shelley], The Last Man. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC
    • He sat by John Thornton's fire, a broad-breasted dog, white fanged and long-furred; but behind him were the shades of all manner of dogs, half-wolves and wild wolves ...1903 July, Jack London, The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC

Also used as

fanged is also the simple past and past participle of fang.

Origin of fanged

From fang + -ed.

Words formed from fanged

Phrases with fanged

Questions about fanged

What does fanged mean?
Fanged means equipped with fangs.
What part of speech is fanged?
Fanged is an adjective.

Words near fanged in the dictionary

  1. Fangcheng
  2. Fangchenggang
  3. fangchinoline
  4. Fangchuan
  5. fangdom
  6. fanged
  7. fanged it
  8. fanger
  9. fangers
  10. Fangfoss
  11. fangful

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