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quitched

quitched is the simple past and past participle of quitch.

Meaning of quitch

Verb

quitch (third-person singular simple present quitches, present participle quitching, simple past and past participle quitched)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To shake (something); to stir, move.
  2. (UK, intransitive, regional) To stir; to move.
    • With a strong yron chaine and coller bound, / That once he could not move, nor quich at all […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. (intransitive) To flinch; shrink.

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Questions about quitched

What is quitched the simple past and past participle of?
Quitched is the simple past and past participle of quitch.

Words near quitched in the dictionary

  1. quit-rents
  2. quitasol
  3. quitasols
  4. quitch
  5. quitch grass
  6. quitched
  7. quitches
  8. quitchgrass
  9. quitching
  10. quitclaim
  11. quitclaim deed

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