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meddled

meddled is the simple past and past participle of meddle.

Meaning of meddle

Verb

meddle (third-person singular simple present meddles, present participle meddling, simple past and past participle meddled)

  1. To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly.
    • […] why ſhouldeſt thou meddle to thy hurt,[…]?1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings 14:10, column 2
  2. (obsolete) To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense.
    • […]ſtuddy to be quyet / and to medle with youre owne buſynes[…].1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, 1 Thessalonians iiij:[11], folio cclxx, verso
  3. (obsolete) To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend.
    • [H]e cutt a lock of all their heare, / Which medling with their blood & earth, he threw / Into the graue,[…].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 204
  4. (US, intransitive, regional) To have sex.
    • But after god came to Adam and bad hym knowe his wyf flesshly as nature requyred / Soo lay Adam with his wyf vnder the same tree / and anone the tree whiche was whyte and ful grene as ony grasse and alle that came oute of hit / and in the same tyme that they medled to gyders there was Abel begoten...1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter V, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII
    Synonyms:
    do it, get it on, ming, approach, cohabit, common, company, copulate, couple, engage in sex

Words formed from meddled

Phrases with meddled

Questions about meddled

What is meddled the simple past and past participle of?
Meddled is the simple past and past participle of meddle.

Words near meddled in the dictionary

  1. Meddings
  2. meddle
  3. meddle and make
  4. meddle nor make
  5. meddle or make
  6. meddled
  7. meddled and made
  8. meddled nor made
  9. meddled or made
  10. meddlement
  11. meddlements

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