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looked daggers

looked daggers is the simple past and past participle of look daggers.

Meaning of look daggers

Verb

look daggers (third-person singular simple present looks daggers, present participle looking daggers, simple past and past participle looked daggers)

  1. (intransitive) Often followed by at: to stare in a disapproving, severe, or threatening manner, especially without speaking.
    • Before him set the grim baron, with a face worthy of the father of such a daughter, and looking daggers and rat's bane.1835, [Washington Irving], “Abbotsford”, in Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey (The Crayon Miscellany; no. 2), Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard, →OCLC, pages 40–41

Questions about looked daggers

What is looked daggers the simple past and past participle of?
Looked daggers is the simple past and past participle of look daggers.

Words near looked daggers in the dictionary

  1. looked away
  2. looked back
  3. looked before one leaped
  4. looked before one leapt
  5. looked beyond
  6. looked daggers
  7. looked down
  8. looked down on
  9. looked down one's nose
  10. looked down upon
  11. looked for

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