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rogued

rogued is the simple past and past participle of rogue.

Meaning of rogue

Verb

rogue (third-person singular simple present rogues, present participle roguing or rogueing, simple past and past participle rogued)

  1. To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.
    • Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. It's usually referred to as culling or roguing. ...we examine the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue.2000, Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties, Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub
  2. (dated, transitive) To cheat.
    • And then to think that Mark should have rogued me of five shiners! He was clever—that's a fact.1883, Prairie Farmer, volume 55, page 29
  3. (obsolete) To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
    • he Atheists may endeavour to rogue and ridicule all incorporeal Substance1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […]...
  4. (intransitive, obsolete) To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.
    • if hee be but once so taken idlely roguing1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […]...

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Questions about rogued

What is rogued the simple past and past participle of?
Rogued is the simple past and past participle of rogue.

Words near rogued in the dictionary

  1. rogue's yarns
  2. rogue-like
  3. rogue-likes
  4. rogue-lite
  5. rogue-lites
  6. rogued
  7. roguedom
  8. roguehood
  9. rogueing
  10. rogueish
  11. roguelike

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