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warrayed

warrayed is the simple past and past participle of warray.

Meaning of warray

Verb

warray (third-person singular simple present warrays, present participle warraying, simple past and past participle warrayed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To wage war against.
    • And them long time before, great Nimrod was,
      That first the world with sword and fire warrayd […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about warrayed

What is warrayed the simple past and past participle of?
Warrayed is the simple past and past participle of warray.

Words near warrayed in the dictionary

  1. warraunts
  2. Warrawee
  3. Warrawidgee
  4. Warrawong
  5. warray
  6. warrayed
  7. warraying
  8. warrays
  9. Warrayure
  10. Warrazambil Creek
  11. warre

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