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feasted

feasted is the simple past and past participle of feast.

Meaning of feast

Verb

feast (third-person singular simple present feasts, present participle feasting, simple past and past participle feasted)

  1. (intransitive) To partake in a feast, or large meal.
    • I feasted on turkey and dumplings.
  2. (intransitive) To dwell upon (something) with delight.
    • With my love's picture then my eye doth feast.1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 47”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
  3. (transitive) To hold a feast in honor of (someone).
    • He that shall see this day, and live old age,
      Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors
      And say “Tomorrow is Saint Crispian.”1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.
    • Or once a week, perhaps, for novelty / Reez'd bacon-soords shall feast his family.1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum

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What is feasted the simple past and past participle of?
Feasted is the simple past and past participle of feast.

Words near feasted in the dictionary

  1. feast or famine
  2. Feast Week
  3. feastday
  4. feastdays
  5. feaste
  6. feasted
  7. feasted one's eyes
  8. feaster
  9. feasters
  10. feastes
  11. feastest

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