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stemmed the tide

stemmed the tide is the simple past and past participle of stem the tide.

Meaning of stem the tide

Verb

stem the tide (third-person singular simple present stems the tide, present participle stemming the tide, simple past and past participle stemmed the tide)

  1. (idiomatic) To slow or stop the flow of something.
    • The news report stemmed the tide of concerned calls, but didn't stop them altogether.

Questions about stemmed the tide

What is stemmed the tide the simple past and past participle of?
Stemmed the tide is the simple past and past participle of stem the tide.

Words near stemmed the tide in the dictionary

  1. stemmatology
  2. stemmatous
  3. stemme
  4. stemmed
  5. stemmed the rose
  6. stemmed the tide
  7. stemmer
  8. stemmeries
  9. stemmers
  10. stemmery
  11. stemmes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stemmed the tide (page history and authors); stem the tide (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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