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hothoused

hothoused is the simple past and past participle of hothouse.

Meaning of hothouse

Verb

hothouse (third-person singular simple present hothouses, present participle hothousing, simple past and past participle hothoused)

  1. (transitive) To provide (a child) with an enriched environment with the aim of stimulating academic development.
    • she had such an exceptional grasp of maths in her first two years at the school theyʼd been hothousing her to sit her GCSE Maths two years early2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 245

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Questions about hothoused

What is hothoused the simple past and past participle of?
Hothoused is the simple past and past participle of hothouse.

Words near hothoused in the dictionary

  1. hothouse
  2. hothouse effect
  3. hothouse effects
  4. hothouse flower
  5. hothouse flowers
  6. hothoused
  7. hothouser
  8. hothousers
  9. hothouses
  10. hothousing
  11. Hoths

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