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sung soprano

sung soprano is the past participle of sing soprano.

Meaning of sing soprano

Verb

sing soprano (third-person singular simple present sings soprano, present participle singing soprano, simple past sang soprano, past participle sung soprano)

  1. (intransitive, literally) To perform vocal music in a higher pitch than alto.
  2. (euphemistic, idiomatic, intransitive) To suffer castration or an injury to the testicles.
    • A couple of women lawyers . . . drew a sharp, gleaming knife and applied it mentally to a target just south of the groom's waistline. If he doesn't like it, let the bastard go sing soprano to the A.C.L.U. Such was the ladies' thought.1997 December 8, Lance Morrow, “Goodbye, Miss Havisham”, in Time

Questions about sung soprano

What is sung soprano the past participle of?
Sung soprano is the past participle of sing soprano.

Words near sung soprano in the dictionary

  1. sung like a bird
  2. sung like a canary
  3. sung off the same hymn sheet
  4. sung out
  5. sung small
  6. sung soprano
  7. sung the praises of
  8. sung the same tune
  9. sung up
  10. Sung-chiang
  11. sung-through

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sung soprano (page history and authors); sing soprano (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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