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waid

waid adjective: oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.

Adjective

waid (comparative more waid, superlative most waid)

  1. (obsolete) Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.
    • This being waid, as may delight,
      be not afraid, the countrey wight1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […]...

Proper noun capitalized: Waid

Waid (plural Waids)

  1. A surname.

Forms of waid

Adjective
comparativemore waid
superlativemost waid
Proper noun
pluralWaids

Origin of waid

For weighed.

From the German surname. See Weide (“pasture”), also derived from Middle High German weit (“woad”), see English woad.

Questions about waid

What does waid mean?
Waid means oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.
What part of speech is waid?
Waid can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near waid in the dictionary

  1. Waiblings
  2. Waichow
  3. WAICO
  4. Waicura
  5. Waicuri
  6. waid
  7. Waide
  8. Waides
  9. Waidhofen an der Thaya
  10. Waids
  11. waie

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