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sabred

sabred is the simple past and past participle of sabre.

Meaning of sabre

Verb

sabre (third-person singular simple present sabres, present participle sabring, simple past and past participle sabred)

  1. (Canada, UK, transitive) To strike or kill with a sabre.
    • There lie poor sallow workworn weavers, and complain no more now; women themselves are slashed and sabred, howling terror fills the air; […]1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter III, in Past and Present
  2. (Canada, UK, transitive) To open (a bottle) via sabrage.

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Adjective

sabred (not comparable)

  1. Equipped with a sabre or sabres.
    • […] there are Persons whose Loveliness is more formidable to me, than an Arrangement of sabred Hussars with their fierce looking Mustaches.1769, Henry Brooke, The Fool of Quality, volume 4, Dublin, page 211
    • To both, war was a mere name yet, a painted glory, a sabred, gold-laced parade before admiring, cheering crowds.1894, Helen H. Gardener, chapter 13, in An Unofficial Patriot, Boston: Arena Publishing Company, page 183

Words formed from sabred

Questions about sabred

What does sabred mean?
Sabred means equipped with a sabre or sabres.
What is sabred the simple past and past participle of?
Sabred is the simple past and past participle of sabre.
What part of speech is sabred?
Sabred is an adjective.

Words near sabred in the dictionary

  1. sabre-tooths
  2. sabrebill
  3. sabrebills
  4. sabrecat
  5. sabrecats
  6. sabred
  7. Sabree
  8. Sabrees
  9. sabrefish
  10. sabrefishes
  11. sabreleg

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sabred (page history and authors); sabre (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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