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rear-ended

rear-ended is the simple past and past participle of rear-end.

Meaning of rear-end

Verb

rear-end (third-person singular simple present rear-ends, present participle rear-ending, simple past and past participle rear-ended)

  1. (transitive) Of a vehicle, to strike (another vehicle) from behind.

Adjective

rear-ended (not comparable)

  1. Of a vehicle, struck from behind by another vehicle.

Questions about rear-ended

What does rear-ended mean?
Rear-ended means of a vehicle, struck from behind by another vehicle.
What is rear-ended the simple past and past participle of?
Rear-ended is the simple past and past participle of rear-end.
What part of speech is rear-ended?
Rear-ended is an adjective.

Words near rear-ended in the dictionary

  1. rear vision mirrors
  2. rear wheel
  3. rear wheels
  4. rear'd
  5. rear-end
  6. rear-ended
  7. rear-ender
  8. rear-enders
  9. rear-ending
  10. rear-ends
  11. rear-fanged

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rear-ended (page history and authors); rear-end (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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