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obliqued

obliqued is the simple past and past participle of oblique.

Meaning of oblique

Verb

oblique (third-person singular simple present obliques, present participle obliquing, simple past and past participle obliqued)

  1. (intransitive) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to become askew.
    • he sat upon the edge of his chair […] and achieved a communication with his plate by projecting his person towards it in a line which obliqued from the bottom of his spine1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverly
  2. To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
  3. (transitive) To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.

See all 16 meanings of oblique

Questions about obliqued

What is obliqued the simple past and past participle of?
Obliqued is the simple past and past participle of oblique.

Words near obliqued in the dictionary

  1. oblique types
  2. oblique wing
  3. oblique wings
  4. oblique-swimming triplefin
  5. oblique-swimming triplefins
  6. obliqued
  7. obliquely
  8. obliqueness
  9. obliquenesses
  10. obliquer
  11. obliques

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Adapted from Wiktionary: obliqued (page history and authors); oblique (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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