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sprayed and prayed

sprayed and prayed is the simple past and past participle of spray and pray.

Meaning of spray and pray

Verb

spray and pray (third-person singular simple present sprays and prays, present participle spraying and praying, simple past and past participle sprayed and prayed)

  1. (informal) To dispense anything (such as bullets or advertising) in an uncoordinated manner, hoping to reach the desired target through luck.

Questions about sprayed and prayed

What is sprayed and prayed the simple past and past participle of?
Sprayed and prayed is the simple past and past participle of spray and pray.

Words near sprayed and prayed in the dictionary

  1. spraybows
  2. spraydeck
  3. spraydecks
  4. spraydrift
  5. sprayed
  6. sprayed and prayed
  7. sprayed edge
  8. sprayed edges
  9. sprayer
  10. sprayers
  11. sprayey

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sprayed and prayed (page history and authors); spray and pray (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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