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gauzed

gauzed is the simple past and past participle of gauze.

Meaning of gauze

Verb

gauze (third-person singular simple present gauzes, present participle gauzing, simple past and past participle gauzed)

  1. (transitive) To apply a dressing of gauze; to cover with gauze.
    • The lid [of the feeder] has a circular gauzed area that allows the syrup to permeate slowly.2004, Peter Gordon, Starting with Bees, page 52
  2. (ambitransitive, literary) To mist; to make or become gauze-like.
    • The wide plain gauzed into a sea on which the hut floated lonely.1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 28

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Questions about gauzed

What is gauzed the simple past and past participle of?
Gauzed is the simple past and past participle of gauze.

Words near gauzed in the dictionary

  1. Gauxholme
  2. gauze
  3. gauze mat
  4. gauze mats
  5. gauze-like
  6. gauzed
  7. gauzeless
  8. gauzelike
  9. gauzes
  10. gauzier
  11. gauziest

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