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no-sold

no-sold is the simple past and past participle of no-sell.

Meaning of no-sell

Verb

no-sell (third-person singular simple present no-sells, present participle no-selling, simple past and past participle no-sold)

  1. (transitive, combat sports) To act as if an attack from an opponent had no effect.
    • Powell was doing his best to no-sell a previous exchange. And he was right — Reyes' strikes didn't hurt him or really hit him.2017 June 2, MMA Fighting Newswire, “Fighter shakes head saying a strike didn't hurt — then gets KO'd by head kick”, in MMA Fighting
  2. (transitive) To shrug off; to withstand without significant reaction or injury.
    • So the bulges would give them a huge amount more buoyancy, which would allow them to navigate narrower channels; the guns would need to be modified so that they could fire at a higher angle, which'd give them better shore-bombardment capability; but, as I say, the decks - and we're not talking...2022 September 11, Drachinifel, 56:53 from the start, in The Drydock - Episode 213 (Part 1), archived from the original on 12 Sep 2022

Questions about no-sold

What is no-sold the simple past and past participle of?
No-sold is the simple past and past participle of no-sell.

Words near no-sold in the dictionary

  1. no-shows
  2. no-skip
  3. no-skips
  4. no-sky line
  5. no-sky lines
  6. no-sold
  7. no-stride
  8. no-strides
  9. no-strings-attached
  10. no-take
  11. no-tell hotel

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