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gast

/ɡɑːst/US/ɡæst/

gast verb: to frighten.

Verb

gast (third-person singular simple present gasts, present participle gasting, simple past and past participle gasted)

  1. (obsolete) To frighten.
    • [H]ee charges home my vnprouided body, lancht mine arme, but when he ſaw my beſt alarumd ſpirits, bould in the quarrels, rights, rouſd to the encounter, or whether gaſted by the noyſe I made, but ſodainly he fled.c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […]...

Proper noun capitalized: Gast

Gast (plural Gasts)

  1. A surname.

Forms of gast

Verb
third-person singular presentgasts
present participlegasting
past participlegasted
pastgasted
Proper noun
pluralGasts

Origin of gast

From Middle English gasten, from Old English gǣstan, from Proto-Germanic *gaistijaną. Also spelled ghast due to association with ghost.

* As a German surname, from Gast (“guest”) (see below). * As an Alemannic German surname, shortened from the personal Germanic names Arbogast and Gastolf (compare German Gasthof). * As a French surname, from Old French gast (“wasteland”).

Words formed from gast

Words that rhyme with gast

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Questions about gast

What does gast mean?
Gast means to frighten.
What part of speech is gast?
Gast can be a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce gast?
Gast is pronounced /ɡɑːst/ (UK).
What is the past tense of gast?
The past tense of gast is gasted.

Words near gast in the dictionary

  1. Gassmans
  2. Gassner
  3. Gassners
  4. Gasson
  5. gassy
  6. gast
  7. gastald
  8. gastaldate
  9. gastaldates
  10. gastalds
  11. gasted

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