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lusted

lusted is the simple past and past participle of lust.

Meaning of lust

Verb

lust (third-person singular simple present lusts, present participle lusting, simple past and past participle lusted)

  1. (intransitive, usually in the phrase lust after) To look at or watch with a strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.
    • He then thought that all the sins which he had ever committed were personified, and that they all cried out against him. One cried out, I am thy lust, with which thou formerly lustedst unlawfully, and against the precepts of God: […]1845, Samuel Fox, “Anglo[-]Saxon Monks. Theodore. A Monastic Vision. […]”, in Monks and Monasteries; Being an Account of English Monarchism (The Englishman’s Library; XXVIII), London: James Burns...
  2. (archaic, intransitive, transitive, usually, for, to) To desire.
    • And I ſaye vnto you that helias ys come alredy / and they knewe hym nott: butt have done vnto him whatſoever they luſted.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew xvij:[12], folio xxiiij, recto

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Proper noun capitalized: Lusted

Lusted (plural Lusteds)

  1. A surname from Old English.

Forms of lusted

pluralLusteds

Origin of lusted

Habitational surname from a minor place in Cudham, Greater London, which is recorded as Luckestethel in 1317; the placename probably derives from Old English loc (“lock, bolt, enclosure”) + stede (“place”).

Phrases with lusted

Questions about lusted

What does lusted mean?
Lusted means a surname from Old English.
What is lusted the simple past and past participle of?
Lusted is the simple past and past participle of lust.
What part of speech is lusted?
Lusted is a proper noun.

Words near lusted in the dictionary

  1. Lussiers
  2. lust
  3. lust after
  4. lust murder
  5. lust murders
  6. lusted
  7. lusted after
  8. Lusteds
  9. lustedst
  10. luster
  11. lustered

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