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gasted

gasted is the simple past and past participle of gast.

Meaning of gast

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, […]...

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Phrases with gasted

Questions about gasted

What is gasted the simple past and past participle of?
Gasted is the simple past and past participle of gast.

Words near gasted in the dictionary

  1. gast
  2. gastald
  3. gastaldate
  4. gastaldates
  5. gastalds
  6. gasted
  7. Gastelum
  8. Gastelums
  9. gaster
  10. gasteracanthine
  11. gasteracanthines

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