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mildewed

mildewed is the simple past and past participle of mildew.

Meaning of mildew

Verb

mildew (third-person singular simple present mildews, present participle mildewing, simple past and past participle mildewed)

  1. (transitive) To taint with mildew.
    • Hee giues the Web and the Pin, ſquints the eye, and makes the Hare‐lippe; Mildewes the white Wheate, and hurts the poore Creature of earth.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  2. (intransitive) To become tainted with mildew.
    • His bald purplish head now looked for all the world like a mildewed skull.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Spouter-Inn”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 24

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Adjective

mildewed (comparative more mildewed, superlative most mildewed)

  1. Covered with mildew.
    • On opening the mildewed door, he flashed a tunnel of light down the passage, uncarpeted and dreary, which ended in a broad, straight, wooden staircase leading to the upper floor.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019

Forms of mildewed

comparativemore mildewed
superlativemost mildewed

Words formed from mildewed

Questions about mildewed

What does mildewed mean?
Mildewed means covered with mildew.
What is mildewed the simple past and past participle of?
Mildewed is the simple past and past participle of mildew.
What part of speech is mildewed?
Mildewed is an adjective.

Words near mildewed in the dictionary

  1. mildest
  2. mildew
  3. mildewcidal
  4. mildewcide
  5. mildewcides
  6. mildewed
  7. mildewer
  8. mildewers
  9. mildewicide
  10. mildewicides
  11. mildewiness

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