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wallflowered

wallflowered is the simple past and past participle of wallflower.

Meaning of wallflower

Verb

wallflower (third-person singular simple present wallflowers, present participle wallflowering, simple past and past participle wallflowered)

  1. (intransitive) To stand shyly apart from a dance, waiting to be asked to join in.
    • […] the idea that a full tango experience is impossible without the presence of wallflowers and without the threat of wallflowering as the potential dancers enter the tango club.2010, Alexandra Carter, Janet O'Shea, The Routledge Dance Studies Reader, page 237

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Questions about wallflowered

What is wallflowered the simple past and past participle of?
Wallflowered is the simple past and past participle of wallflower.

Words near wallflowered in the dictionary

  1. wallfish
  2. wallflower
  3. wallflower cabbage
  4. wallflower cabbages
  5. wallflower poison
  6. wallflowered
  7. wallflowering
  8. wallflowerish
  9. wallflowers
  10. wallflowery
  11. wallful

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