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palimpsested

palimpsested is the simple past and past participle of palimpsest.

Meaning of palimpsest

Verb

palimpsest (third-person singular simple present palimpsests, present participle palimpsesting, simple past and past participle palimpsested)

  1. To scrape clean, as in parchment, for reuse.
  2. On paper: to reuse, often by erasure or change of pen direction or color. Especially fueled by Earth Day.
    • Typically refers to a multi-layered work, e.g.: new ads covering old on a roadside sign.

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Questions about palimpsested

What is palimpsested the simple past and past participle of?
Palimpsested is the simple past and past participle of palimpsest.

Words near palimpsested in the dictionary

  1. Palimbang
  2. Palime
  3. palimony
  4. palimpcestuous
  5. palimpsest
  6. palimpsested
  7. palimpsestic
  8. palimpsestically
  9. palimpsesting
  10. palimpsests
  11. palimpsestuous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palimpsested (page history and authors); palimpsest (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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