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pestled

/ˈpɛsəld/

pestled is the simple past and past participle of pestle.

Meaning of pestle

Verb

pestle (third-person singular simple present pestles, present participle pestling, simple past and past participle pestled)

  1. (transitive) To pound, crush, rub or grind, as in a mortar with a pestle.
    • ‘Next time, boy, that you use that mortar for garlic, I will personally knock out your brain, place it in the said mortar, pestle it to a fine paste and give it to Dick Purser for feeding the dogs.’2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 47

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Questions about pestled

What is pestled the simple past and past participle of?
Pestled is the simple past and past participle of pestle.
How do you pronounce pestled?
Pestled is pronounced /ˈpɛsəld/.

Words near pestled in the dictionary

  1. pestivirus
  2. pestiviruses
  3. Pestișu Mic
  4. pestle
  5. pestle and mortar
  6. pestled
  7. pestlelike
  8. pestles
  9. pestles and mortars
  10. pestlike
  11. pestling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pestled (page history and authors); pestle (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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