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wappered

wappered is the simple past and past participle of wapper.

Meaning of wapper

Verb

wapper (third-person singular simple present wappers, present participle wappering, simple past and past participle wappered)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To exhaust; to tire out.
    • this is it, That makes the wapper'd widow wed again;1623, William Shakespeare, The Life of Tymon of Athens
  2. (intransitive) To move weakly or tremulously; to flag.
    • But still he stode, his face to set awrye, And wappering turnid vp his white of eye.1610, John Higgins, The Mirour for Magistrates

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Questions about wappered

What is wappered the simple past and past participle of?
Wappered is the simple past and past participle of wapper.

Words near wappered in the dictionary

  1. wappenshawing
  2. wapper
  3. wapper jaw
  4. wapper jaws
  5. wapper-jawed
  6. wappered
  7. wappering
  8. wapperjawed
  9. wappers
  10. wapping
  11. wapping cove

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wappered (page history and authors); wapper (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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