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footballed

footballed is the simple past and past participle of football.

Meaning of football

Verb

football (third-person singular simple present footballs, present participle footballing, simple past and past participle footballed)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To play football.
    • It was an announcement of the outbreak of what is now termed World War I. Some of us lads were footballing when we heard the news. It left us bewildered.1969, Alec Hugh Chisholm, The Joy of the Earth, page 358

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Questions about footballed

What is footballed the simple past and past participle of?
Footballed is the simple past and past participle of football.

Words near footballed in the dictionary

  1. football pools
  2. football tennis
  3. Football War
  4. football-player
  5. football-players
  6. footballed
  7. footballene
  8. footballer
  9. footballers
  10. footballese
  11. footballfish

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