gazelled
gazelled is the simple past and past participle of gazelle.
Meaning of gazelle
Verb
gazelle (third-person singular simple present gazelles, present participle gazelling, simple past and past participle gazelled)
- To leap like a gazelle.
- And all of the pine trees were in a bad state of repair, owning charred stumps of arms and blasted heads. Quite a number of them were dead; some of the corpses leaned starkly back in the arms of a live brother, but most of them preferred to fall across the road. Owing to this the car was soon...1917, Marion Hill, chapter 2, in McAllister’s Grove, page 21
- To go fast; to speed; to rush.
- Nadezhda and I biked over together, me dressed in colonial whites, trundling along with other cyclists gazelling by me on both sides […]1990, Kim Stanley Robinson, Pacific Edge, page 90
Questions about gazelled
- What is gazelled the simple past and past participle of?
- Gazelled is the simple past and past participle of gazelle.
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