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sade

/seɪd/

sade verb: to tire, weary. Also the alternative spelling of sadhe.

Verb

sade (third-person singular simple present sades, present participle sading, simple past and past participle saded)

  1. (dialectal) To tire, weary.

Also used as

sade is also the alternative spelling of sadhe.

Forms of sade

Verb
third-person singular presentsades
present participlesading
past participlesaded
pastsaded
Noun
pluralsades

Origin of sade

From Middle English saden (“to weary, become weary or satisfied”), from Old English sadian (“to satisfy, satiate, fill, be sated, become wearied”), from Proto-West Germanic *sadōn (“to satiate, become satisfied”), from Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“sated”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satiate, be satisfied”). Doublet of sate, a later variant; also cognate with English sad.

Questions about sade

What does sade mean?
Sade means to tire, weary.
What part of speech is sade?
Sade is a verb.
How do you pronounce sade?
Sade is pronounced /seɪd/.
What is the past tense of sade?
The past tense of sade is saded.

Words near sade in the dictionary

  1. Sadducees
  2. Sadducism
  3. Sadducisms
  4. Sadducize
  5. Sadducæan
  6. sade
  7. Sadean
  8. saded
  9. Sadeek
  10. Sadeghi
  11. Sadeghis

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