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shampooed

shampooed is the simple past and past participle of shampoo.

Meaning of shampoo

Verb

shampoo (third-person singular simple present shampoos, present participle shampooing, simple past and past participle shampooed)

  1. (intransitive) To wash one's own hair with shampoo.
    • My neat-freak of a friend has been compulsively shampooing for every bath he has taken.
  2. (transitive) To wash (i.e. the hair, carpet, etc.) with shampoo.
    • Each pony had his sais, his groom, who lived and ate and slept with the animal, and had betted a good deal more than he could afford on the result of the game. There was no chance of anything going wrong, but to make sure, each sais was shampooing the legs of his pony to the last minute. Behind the...2010, Rudyard Kipling with James Daley, comp., “The Maltese Cat”, in Great Horse Stories, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, →ISBN, page 95
  3. (transitive) To press or knead the whole surface of the body of (a person), and at the same time to stretch the limbs and joints, in connection with the hot bath.
    Synonyms:
    massage

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Words formed from shampooed

Questions about shampooed

What is shampooed the simple past and past participle of?
Shampooed is the simple past and past participle of shampoo.

Words near shampooed in the dictionary

  1. shampoo bowl
  2. shampoo bowls
  3. shampoo ginger
  4. shampoo gingers
  5. shampooable
  6. shampooed
  7. shampooer
  8. shampooers
  9. shampooey
  10. shampooing
  11. shampooings

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