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lexed

lexed is the simple past and past participle of lex.

Meaning of lex

Verb

lex (third-person singular simple present lexes, present participle lexing, simple past and past participle lexed)

  1. To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.
    • Once this is done, each processor parses and lexes its own documents, using conventional programming techniques.1994, Donna K. Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, The Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-2)

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Forms of lexed

comparativemore lexed
superlativemost lexed

Words formed from lexed

Questions about lexed

What is lexed the simple past and past participle of?
Lexed is the simple past and past participle of lex.

Words near lexed in the dictionary

  1. Lexana
  2. Lexapro
  3. Lexas
  4. lexatumumab
  5. Lexden
  6. lexed
  7. Lexee
  8. lexeis
  9. lexeme
  10. lexemehood
  11. lexemes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lexed (page history and authors); lex (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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