grayed
/ɡɹeɪd/
grayed is the simple past and past participle of gray.
Meaning of gray
Verb
gray (third-person singular simple present grays, present participle graying, simple past and past participle grayed)
- To turn gray.
- My hair is beginning to gray.
- To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)
- the graying of America
- To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.
Phrases with grayed
Words that rhyme with grayed
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- abraid
- blockade
- cade
- fade
- glade
- raid
- upbraid
- abrade
- crusade
- esplanade
- invade
- lade
- unlaid
- upgrade
- brigade
- brocade
- cavalcade
- colonnade
- displayed
- glissade
- grenade
- paid
- palisade
- unlade
- afraid
- ambuscade
- arcade
- corrade
- degrade
- enfilade
- evade
- jade
- lemonade
- made
- maid
- persuade
- pomade
- spade
- unmade
- aide
- cannonade
- carbonade
- carronade
- clade
- cockade
- Dade
- decayed
- dragonnade
Questions about grayed
- What is grayed the simple past and past participle of?
- Grayed is the simple past and past participle of gray.
- How do you pronounce grayed?
- Grayed is pronounced /ɡɹeɪd/.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: grayed (page history and authors); gray (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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