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re-gayed

re-gayed is the simple past and past participle of re-gay.

Meaning of re-gay

Verb

re-gay (third-person singular simple present re-gays, present participle re-gaying, simple past and past participle re-gayed)

  1. (uncommon) To cause (an issue, especially AIDS) to be associated once again with gay people.
    • This is why AIDS simply had to be re-gayed.2002, Simon Watney, Imagine Hope, page 189

Questions about re-gayed

What is re-gayed the simple past and past participle of?
Re-gayed is the simple past and past participle of re-gay.

Words near re-gayed in the dictionary

  1. re-fuse
  2. re-fused
  3. re-fuses
  4. re-fusing
  5. re-gay
  6. re-gayed
  7. re-gaying
  8. re-gays
  9. re-gear
  10. re-geared
  11. re-gearing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-gayed (page history and authors); re-gay (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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