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sawed

sawed is the simple past and past participle of saw.

sawed is the simple past of see.

Meaning of saw

Verb

saw (third-person singular simple present saws, present participle sawing, simple past sawed, past participle sawed or sawn)

  1. (transitive) To cut (something) with a saw.
    • They were stoned, they were sawen asunder, were tempted, were slaine with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskinnes, and goat skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 11:37
  2. (intransitive) To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
    • He said he was sometimes whistling a tune to himself — for, like me, he sawed a good deal on the fiddle; […]1835, James Hogg, The Story of Euphemia Hewit
  3. (intransitive) To be cut with a saw.
    • The timber saws smoothly.
  4. (transitive) To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.
    • to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)

See all 17 meanings of saw

Meaning of see

Verb

see (third-person singular simple present sees, present participle seeing, simple past saw or (dialectal) seen or (dialectal) seent or (dialectal) seed, past participle seen or (dialectal) seent or (dialectal) seed or (dialectal) saw or (dialectal or eye dialect) sawn)

  1. (transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
    • Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path.[…]It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 18
    1. (transitive) To witness or observe by personal experience.
      • Now I've seen it all!
    2. (transitive) To watch (a movie) at a cinema, or a show on television etc.
      • I saw the latest Tarantino flick last week.
  2. To form a mental picture of, to perceive in a certain way.
    • I see it as essential that there should be somewhere to park.
    1. (figuratively) To understand.
      • Do you see what I mean?
    2. (figuratively) To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
      • They're blind to the damage they do, but someday they'll see.

See all 27 meanings of see

Origin of sawed

Regular addition of the past tense suffix -ed to saw.

Nonstandard addition of -ed to saw, which is already a strong past tense form of see.

Words formed from sawed

Phrases with sawed

Words that rhyme with sawed

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Questions about sawed

What is sawed the simple past and past participle of?
Sawed is the simple past and past participle of saw.

Words near sawed in the dictionary

  1. sawdusts
  2. sawdusty
  3. Sawdy
  4. Sawdys
  5. sawe
  6. sawed
  7. sawed gourds
  8. sawed logs
  9. sawed off
  10. sawed off the branch one was sitting on
  11. sawed the baby in half

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sawed (page history and authors); saw (page history and authors); see (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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