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pestered

pestered is the simple past and past participle of pester.

Meaning of pester

Verb

pester (third-person singular simple present pesters, present participle pestering, simple past and past participle pestered)

  1. (transitive) To bother, harass, or annoy persistently.
    • He pestered me with questions.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete, transitive) To crowd together thickly.
    • That which eſpecialleſt nouriſht the moſt prime pleaſure in me, was after a ſtorme when they were driuen inſwarmes, and lay close peſtred together as thicke as they could packe; the next day following, if it were faire, they would cloud the whole skie with canuas, by ſpreading their drabled ſailes...1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, pages 5–6

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Questions about pestered

What is pestered the simple past and past participle of?
Pestered is the simple past and past participle of pester.

Words near pestered in the dictionary

  1. pestemal
  2. pestemals
  3. pester
  4. pester power
  5. pesterable
  6. pestered
  7. pesterer
  8. pesterers
  9. pesterest
  10. pestereth
  11. pesterin'

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