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gride

/ˈɡɹaɪd/

gride verb: to pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab.

Verb

gride (third-person singular simple present grides, present participle griding, simple past and past participle grided)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab.
    • Where feeling one cloſe couched by her ſide / She lightly lept out of her filed bedd, / And to her weapon ran, in minde to gride / The loathed leachour.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 408
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To travel through something.
    • So ſtoutly he withſtood their ſtrong aſſay, / Till that at laſt, when he aduantage ſpyde, / His poynant ſpeare he thruſt with puiſſant ſway / At proud Cymochles, whiles his ſhield was wyde, / That through his thigh the mortall ſteele did gryde[…]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, pages 300-301
  3. To produce a grinding or scraping sound.
    • Fiercely flies
      The blast of North and East, and ice
      Makes daggers at the sharpen’d eaves,
      And bristles all the brakes and thorns
      To yon hard crescent, as she hangs
      Above the wood which grides and clangs
      Its leafless ribs and iron horns
      Together, in the drifts that pass
      To darken on the rolling...1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 108

Noun

gride (plural grides)

  1. A harsh grating sound.
    • The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of waggons, and the staccato of hoofs.1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 160

gride meaning in Tamil and Urdu

gride in Tamil

பின்னல்

gride in Urdu

چھید کرنا

Synonyms of gride

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Forms of gride

Verb
third-person singular presentgrides
present participlegriding
past participlegrided
pastgrided
Noun
pluralgrides

Origin of gride

From a metathetic variation of gird (“to strike, smite, upbraid, scold, jibe”), from Middle English girden, gerden (“to strike, thrust, smite”, literally “smite with a rod”), from gerd, yerd (“a rod, yard”). More at yard.

Words that rhyme with gride

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Questions about gride

What does gride mean?
Gride means to pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab.
What is gride in Tamil?
Gride in Tamil is பின்னல். See Gride meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is gride?
Gride can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce gride?
Gride is pronounced /ˈɡɹaɪd/.
What is the past tense of gride?
The past tense of gride is grided.

Words near gride in the dictionary

  1. griddler
  2. griddlers
  3. griddles
  4. griddling
  5. griddy
  6. gride
  7. grided
  8. gridelin
  9. gridelins
  10. Grider
  11. Griders

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gride (page history and authors); gride (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gride (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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