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respue

respue verb: to reject.

Verb

respue (third-person singular simple present respues, present participle respuing, simple past and past participle respued)

  1. (formal, obsolete, rare, transitive) To reject.
    • […] teaching him to respue this effeminate style of versification.1824, Spirit of the English Magazines, page 362

Forms of respue

third-person singular presentrespues
present participlerespuing
past participlerespued
pastrespued

Questions about respue

What does respue mean?
Respue means to reject.
What part of speech is respue?
Respue is a verb.
What is the past tense of respue?
The past tense of respue is respued.

Words near respue in the dictionary

  1. resps
  2. respuate
  3. respuated
  4. respuates
  5. respuating
  6. respue
  7. respued
  8. respues
  9. respuing
  10. respule
  11. respules

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