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)
- 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
- 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.
- To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.
Questions about obliqued
- What is obliqued the simple past and past participle of?
- Obliqued is the simple past and past participle of oblique.
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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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