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queal

queal verb: to faint away. Also the obsolete form of quail.

Verb

queal (third-person singular simple present queals, present participle quealing, simple past and past participle quealed)

  1. (UK, dialectal, intransitive) To faint away.

Also used as

queal is also the obsolete form of quail.

Forms of queal

third-person singular presentqueals
present participlequealing
past participlequealed
pastquealed

Origin of queal

From Middle English quelen, from Old English cwelan (“to die”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwelan, from Proto-Germanic *kwelaną (“to suffer”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to sting, pierce”). Related to Middle Dutch quelen, queilen. Doublet of quail.

Questions about queal

What does queal mean?
Queal means to faint away.
What part of speech is queal?
Queal is a verb.
What is the past tense of queal?
The past tense of queal is quealed.

Words near queal in the dictionary

  1. queachy
  2. queak
  3. queaked
  4. queaking
  5. queaks
  6. queal
  7. quealed
  8. quealing
  9. queals
  10. Quealy
  11. Quealys

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