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gallowed

gallowed is the simple past and past participle of gallow.

Meaning of gallow

Verb

gallow (third-person singular simple present gallows, present participle gallowing, simple past and past participle gallowed)

  1. (dialectal, transitive) To frighten, alarm, scare, or terrify.
    • The wrathful skies / Gallow the very wanderers of the dark / And make them keep their caves.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  2. (dialectal, transitive) To drive or scare away.
  3. (dialectal, transitive) To confuse with noise.

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Questions about gallowed

What is gallowed the simple past and past participle of?
Gallowed is the simple past and past participle of gallow.

Words near gallowed in the dictionary

  1. Galloway boilers
  2. Galloway tube
  3. Galloway tubes
  4. Galloway-Mowat syndrome
  5. galloways
  6. gallowed
  7. Gallowegian
  8. Gallowegians
  9. Gallowgate
  10. gallowglass
  11. gallowglasses

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