dyed
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /daɪd/
- Rhymes: -aɪd
- Homophone: died
Verb
dyed
- simple past tense and past participle of dye
Adjective
dyed (comparative more dyed, superlative most dyed)
- Coloured or tinted with dye, or as though therewith.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i], page 6:
- Gon. That our Garments being (as they were) drencht in the Sea, hold notwithſtanding their freſhneſſe and gloſſes, being rather new dy'de then ſtain'd with ſalte water.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Ezekiel 23:15:
- Girded with girdles vpon their loynes, exceeding in dyed attire vpon their heads, all of them princes to looke to, after the maner of the Babylonians of Caldea, the land of their natiuitie:
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Derived terms
- deep-dyed
- double-dyed
- dyed in the wool
- dyed-in-the-wool
- wool-dyed
Translations
colored with dye
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Anagrams
- Eddy, dyde, eddy