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peered

peered is the simple past and past participle of peer.

Meaning of peer

Verb (1)

peer (third-person singular simple present peers, present participle peering, simple past and past participle peered)

  1. (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
    • […] I should be still / Plucking the grass, to know where sits the wind, / Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads;c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To come in sight; to appear.
    • And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, / So honour peereth in the meanest habit.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Verb (2)

peer (third-person singular simple present peers, present participle peering, simple past and past participle peered)

  1. To make equal in rank.
    • Being now Peered with the Lord Chancellor, and the Earl of Essex.1670, Peter Heylyn, Aerius Redivivus
  2. (Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.

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Words that rhyme with peered

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Questions about peered

What is peered the simple past and past participle of?
Peered is the simple past and past participle of peer.

Words near peered in the dictionary

  1. peercasted
  2. peercasting
  3. peercasts
  4. peerdom
  5. peerdoms
  6. peered
  7. peerer
  8. peerers
  9. peeress
  10. peeresses
  11. peerest

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