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safetied

safetied is the simple past and past participle of safety.

Meaning of safety

Verb

safety (third-person singular simple present safeties, present participle safetying, simple past and past participle safetied)

  1. (transitive) To secure (a mechanical component, as in aviation) to keep it from becoming detached even under vibration.
  2. to secure a firing pin, as in guns, to keep the gun from firing
    • Time went back to normal for him; he safetied his own weapon and dropped it, jumping forward.2011, Time Crime, page 92

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Adjective

safetied (not comparable)

  1. On which the safety mechanism is engaged.
    • He looked at his guys; nervous and fingering their safetied weapons. One of them hunched over and vomited2014, The Twilight of Liberty, page 205
    • Others had unloaded and permanently safetied weapons on their arms. Thanks to nanobot enhancements, others were now extraordinarily powerful2015, The Beam: Season 3, page 517

Questions about safetied

What does safetied mean?
Safetied means on which the safety mechanism is engaged.
What is safetied the simple past and past participle of?
Safetied is the simple past and past participle of safety.
What part of speech is safetied?
Safetied is an adjective.

Words near safetied in the dictionary

  1. saferoom
  2. saferooms
  3. safes
  4. safest
  5. safetie
  6. safetied
  7. safeties
  8. safetified
  9. safetifies
  10. safetify
  11. safetifying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: safetied (page history and authors); safety (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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