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ochred

ochred is the simple past and past participle of ochre.

Meaning of ochre

Verb

ochre (third-person singular simple present ochres, present participle ochring or ochreing, simple past and past participle ochred)

  1. To cover or tint with ochre.
    • […] his eye was caught by the sight of one child in a group of smaller children playing in the shallows some little distance down—a white child, so white by contrast with the others that at first he thought it must be ochred, which it could not be while playing in the water.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter 14, in Capricornia, New York: Appleton, published 1943, page 229

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Adjective

ochred (comparative more ochred, superlative most ochred)

  1. Painted or coloured with ochre.
    • I glanced around at the iron and bark walls decorated with spears and ochred totem-sticks, at the bare floor of hard earth, at the hurricane lamp dimly glowing upon rough, bush-made furniture.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 207

Forms of ochred

comparativemore ochred
superlativemost ochred

Questions about ochred

What does ochred mean?
Ochred means painted or coloured with ochre.
What is ochred the simple past and past participle of?
Ochred is the simple past and past participle of ochre.
What part of speech is ochred?
Ochred is an adjective.

Words near ochred in the dictionary

  1. ochreae
  2. ochreal
  3. ochreas
  4. ochreasteroside
  5. ochreate
  6. ochred
  7. ochreing
  8. ochreish
  9. ochreous
  10. ochrephilone
  11. ochrept

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ochred (page history and authors); ochre (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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