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skittled

skittled is the simple past and past participle of skittle.

Meaning of skittle

Verb

skittle (third-person singular simple present skittles, present participle skittling, simple past and past participle skittled)

  1. (intransitive) To play skittles.
  2. (transitive) (with down) To squander one's money.
  3. (transitive) (sometimes with out) To rapidly bowl out a succession of batsmen.
    1. (figuratively, transitive) To defeat easily.
  4. (transitive) To knock down (skittles).

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Phrases with skittled

Questions about skittled

What is skittled the simple past and past participle of?
Skittled is the simple past and past participle of skittle.

Words near skittled in the dictionary

  1. skittle out
  2. skittle-dog
  3. skittle-dogs
  4. skittleball
  5. skittleballs
  6. skittled
  7. skittled out
  8. skittler
  9. skittlers
  10. skittles
  11. skittles and beer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skittled (page history and authors); skittle (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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