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tiptoed

tiptoed is the simple past and past participle of tiptoe.

Meaning of tiptoe

Verb

tiptoe (third-person singular simple present tiptoes, present participle tiptoeing, simple past and past participle tiptoed)

  1. (intransitive) To walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground.
    • We went tip-toeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads.1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter II, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 8
    Synonyms:
    tip

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Phrases with tiptoed

Questions about tiptoed

What is tiptoed the simple past and past participle of?
Tiptoed is the simple past and past participle of tiptoe.

Words near tiptoed in the dictionary

  1. tipteerer
  2. tipteerers
  3. tiptoe
  4. tiptoe around
  5. tiptoe through a minefield
  6. tiptoed
  7. tiptoed around
  8. tiptoed through a minefield
  9. tiptoeing
  10. tiptoeing around
  11. tiptoeing through a minefield

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