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treed

treed is the simple past and past participle of tree.

Meaning of tree

Verb

tree (third-person singular simple present trees, present participle treeing, simple past and past participle treed)

  1. (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
    • The dog treed the cat.
  2. (transitive) To place in a tree.
    • Black bears can tree their cubs for protection, but grizzly bears cannot.
  3. (transitive) To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree.
    • to tree a boot
  4. (intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.

See all 20 meanings of tree

Adjective

treed (comparative more treed, superlative most treed)

  1. Planted or covered with trees.
    • even in its urban heart, Eugene is more treed than paved.1995, Stephanie Irving with David Brewster, Northwest Best Places, page 96
    • This lends support for the view, propounded to me by landowners in east central Alberta, that the region is now more treed than when it was homesteaded.2003, Jack Brink with Johan Frederik Dormaar, Archaeological Society of Alberta, Archaeology in Alberta, page 25

Antonyms of treed

Forms of treed

comparativemore treed
superlativemost treed

Questions about treed

What does treed mean?
Treed means planted or covered with trees.
What is treed the simple past and past participle of?
Treed is the simple past and past participle of tree.
What part of speech is treed?
Treed is an adjective.

Words near treed in the dictionary

  1. treechanges
  2. treeconomics
  3. treecotton
  4. treecreeper
  5. treecreepers
  6. treed
  7. treedom
  8. treefall
  9. treefalls
  10. treefern
  11. treeferns

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Adapted from Wiktionary: treed (page history and authors); tree (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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