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glided

glided is the simple past and past participle of glide.

Meaning of glide

Verb

glide (third-person singular simple present glides, present participle gliding, simple past glided or glid or (archaic) glode, past participle glided or glid or (archaic) glode or glidden)

  1. (intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
    • The river glideth at his own sweet will:1807, William Wordsworth, “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 (Sonnet 14)”, in Poems, in Two Volumes, volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    coast, slide
  2. (intransitive) To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.
    • The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8
  3. (transitive) To cause to glide.
  4. To pass with a glide, as the voice.

See all 12 meanings of glide

Questions about glided

What is glided the simple past and past participle of?
Glided is the simple past and past participle of glide.

Words near glided in the dictionary

  1. glide reflection
  2. glide reflections
  3. glide slope
  4. glide slopes
  5. glide time
  6. glided
  7. glideless
  8. glideness
  9. glideosomal
  10. glideosome
  11. glideosomes

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