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tested someone's patience

tested someone's patience is the simple past and past participle of test someone's patience.

Meaning of test someone's patience

Verb

test someone's patience (third-person singular simple present tests someone's patience, present participle testing someone's patience, simple past and past participle tested someone's patience)

  1. (idiomatic, informal, transitive) To begin to frustrate someone.
    • These frequent Internet outages are testing my patience.

Questions about tested someone's patience

What is tested someone's patience the simple past and past participle of?
Tested someone's patience is the simple past and past participle of test someone's patience.

Words near tested someone's patience in the dictionary

  1. teste
  2. testectomies
  3. testectomy
  4. tested
  5. tested out
  6. tested someone's patience
  7. tested the water
  8. tested the waters
  9. testedness
  10. testedst
  11. testee

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