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shrewed

shrewed is the simple past and past participle of shrew.

Meaning of shrew

Verb

shrew (third-person singular simple present shrews, present participle shrewing, simple past and past participle shrewed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To beshrew; to curse.
    • I shrew myself.1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story via the 'title' parameter)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne]...

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What is shrewed the simple past and past participle of?
Shrewed is the simple past and past participle of shrew.

Words near shrewed in the dictionary

  1. shrewdly
  2. shrewdness
  3. shrewdnesses
  4. shrewdom
  5. shrewdy
  6. shrewed
  7. shrewing
  8. shrewish
  9. shrewishly
  10. shrewishness
  11. Shrewley

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