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truanted

truanted is the simple past and past participle of truant.

Meaning of truant

Verb

truant (third-person singular simple present truants, present participle truanting, simple past and past participle truanted)

  1. (intransitive) Also used with the impersonal pronoun it (dated): to shirk or wander from business or duty; (specifically) of a student: to be absent from school without permission; to play truant.
    • The number of schoolchildren known to have truanted from this school has been unusually high.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To idle away or waste (time).
    • I dare not be the Author / Of trevvanting the time then, neither vvill I.c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, […], published 1638, →OCLC, Act III, page 45

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Questions about truanted

What is truanted the simple past and past participle of?
Truanted is the simple past and past participle of truant.

Words near truanted in the dictionary

  1. truant officers
  2. truant school
  3. truant schools
  4. truantcies
  5. truantcy
  6. truanted
  7. truanting
  8. truantings
  9. truantism
  10. truantisms
  11. truantlike

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