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rabbited

rabbited is the simple past and past participle of rabbit.

Meaning of rabbit

Verb (1)

rabbit (third-person singular simple present rabbits, present participle rabbiting or rabbitting, simple past and past participle rabbited or rabbitted)

  1. (intransitive) To hunt rabbits.
  2. (US, intransitive) To flee.
    • The informant seemed skittish, as if he was about to rabbit.
    Synonyms:
    run off, scamper, bolt

Verb (2)

rabbit (third-person singular simple present rabbits, present participle rabbiting, simple past and past participle rabbited)

  1. (UK, intransitive) To talk incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble annoyingly.
    • Stop your infernal rabbiting! Use proper words or nobody will listen to you!

Verb (3)

rabbit

  1. Confound; damn; drat.
    • LORD D. There, Dick, d'ye hear how the tutorer talks? oh rabbit it! he can ladle you out of latin by the quart;—and grunts greek like a pig.1797, George Colman, The Heir at Law

See all 15 meanings of rabbit

Forms of rabbited

alternative formrabbitted

Phrases with rabbited

Questions about rabbited

What is rabbited the simple past and past participle of?
Rabbited is the simple past and past participle of rabbit.

Words near rabbited in the dictionary

  1. rabbitbrush
  2. rabbitbrushes
  3. rabbitbush
  4. rabbitbushes
  5. rabbitdom
  6. rabbited
  7. rabbited on
  8. rabbiter
  9. rabbiters
  10. rabbitess
  11. rabbitesses

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