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whisted

whisted is the simple past and past participle of whist.

Meaning of whist

Verb

whist (third-person singular simple present whists, present participle whisting, simple past and past participle whisted)

  1. (rare, transitive) To hush or shush; to still.
    • o was the Titaness put downe and whist1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (intransitive, rare) To become silent.
    • The fields whist, beasts, and fowls of divers bue1557 July 1, Virgil, “The Fowrth Boke of Virgiles Aenæis”, in Henry [Howard, Earl] of Surrey, transl., edited by William Bolland, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis, Turned into English Meter...

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Questions about whisted

What is whisted the simple past and past participle of?
Whisted is the simple past and past participle of whist.

Words near whisted in the dictionary

  1. whisses
  2. whissing
  3. Whisson
  4. Whissons
  5. whist
  6. whisted
  7. whister
  8. whisterpoop
  9. whisterpoops
  10. whisters
  11. whistful

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