tracted
tracted is the simple past and past participle of tract.
Meaning of tract
Verb (1)
tract (third-person singular simple present tracts, present participle tracting, simple past and past participle tracted)
- To pursue, follow; to track.
- Where may that treachour then (said he) be found, / Or by what meanes may I his footing tract?1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- To draw out; to protract.
- Speak to me , muse , the man , who after Troy was sack'd , Saw many towns and men , and could their manners tract.1616, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Of The Art of Poetry”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, →OCLC
Verb (2)
tract (third-person singular simple present tracts, present participle tracting, simple past and past participle tracted)
Questions about tracted
- What is tracted the simple past and past participle of?
- Tracted is the simple past and past participle of tract.
Words near tracted in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: tracted (page history and authors); tract (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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