WARDED

Definition: WARDED

WARDED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Ward

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "WARDED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Crosswords: WARDED

English words defined with "WARDED": avertable, avertible, avoidable ♦ evitable. (references)

Specialty definitions using "WARDED": Crossing the Hand ♦ House-leek. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
A Christmas Carol	Dickens, Charles	This garment hung so loosely on the figure, that its capacious breast was bare, as if disdaining to be warded or concealed by any artifice.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Switzerland	Unwelcome takeovers can also be warded off by public companies, but legislation introduced in 1992 has made this practice more difficult. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"WARDED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 53.33% of the time. "WARDED" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	53.33%	8	124,375
Lexical Verb (past tense)	33.33%	5	157,705
Noun (common)	6.67%	1	339,140
Adjective (general or positive)	6.67%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	15	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "WARDED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		保护 (Conservation, Entrench, indemnification, Protect, Protected, Protecting, Protection, shielded, shielding, Warding). (various references)

German		wies ein. (various references)

Korean		병동에 수용하�". (various references)

Pig Latin		ardedway

Russian		отражать (be representative of, beat back, beat off, fend, fend off, mirror, parry, reflect, reverberate, typify, ward off). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "WARDED": awarded, becowarded, forwarded, misawarded, rewarded, stewarded, swarded, unawarded, unrewarded. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"WARDED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ard'ed, wadeds, warced, warde, wardet, wared, waried, weirded, werde, Werdel, Wharfed. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "WARDED" (pronounced wô"rdud)
6	w ô" r d u d	awarded, rewarded.
5	-ô" r d u d	accorded, afforded, boarded, corded, hoarded, prerecorded, recorded, sordid, unrecorded.
4	-r d u d	bearded, bombarded, carded, discarded, disregarded, guarded, larded, regarded, retarded, safeguarded, unguarded.
3	-d u d	abided, abounded, acceded, added, aided, alluded, amended, appended, applauded, apprehended, ascended, astounded, attended, avoided, backhanded, banded, barricaded, beaded, bedded, befriended, beheaded, bended, bladed, blended, blinded, blindfolded, blindsided, blockaded, blooded, bonded, bounded, braided, branded, breaded, broadsided, brooded, candid, cascaded, ceded, chided, clouded, coded, coincided, collided, colluded, commanded, commended, compounded, comprehended, conceded, concluded, confided, confounded, contended, corresponded, corroded, crowded, decided, deeded, defended, defrauded, degraded, deluded, demanded, denuded, depended, derided, descended, disbanded, dissuaded, distended, divided, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, dumbfounded, eluded, embedded, encoded, ended, enshrouded, eroded, evaded, evenhanded, exceeded, excluded, expanded, expended, exploded, expounded, extended, extruded, exuded, faded, fended, feuded, fielded, flooded, folded, forwarded, founded, funded, gilded, glided, goaded, graded, grounded, guided, handed, hardheaded, headed, heeded, heralded, herded, homesteaded, hooded, hounded, imbedded, impeded, imploded, impounded, included, intended, interceded, intruded, invaded, jaded, kidded, landed, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, loaded, lopsided, masterminded, melded, mended, minded, misguided, molded, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, offended, outmoded, overcrowded, overextended, overfunded, overloaded, padded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, pleaded, plodded, pounded, preceded, precluded, presided, pretended, prided, proceeded, prodded, propounded, provided, raided, railroaded, rebounded, receded, recommended, redheaded, refunded, reloaded, remanded, reminded, remolded, reprimanded, rescinded, resided, responded, rounded, sanded, scalded, scolded, seceded, secluded, seconded, seeded, serenaded, shaded, shepherded, shielded, shredded, shrouded, sided, skidded, sounded, spearheaded, speeded, splendid, stampeded, stranded, studded, subdivided, subsided, succeeded, superseded, surrounded, suspended, tended, threaded, traded, transcended, trended, unaided, unamended, unattended, unbounded, unbranded, undecided, underfunded, underhanded, undivided, unexploded, unfolded, unfounded, unfunded, unheeded, unheralded, unimpeded, unintended, unleaded, unloaded, unneeded, upbraided, upgraded, voided, wadded, waded, wedded, weeded, welded, wielded, winded, wooded, worded, wounded, wrongheaded, yielded.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: wadder.
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-r-w"
	-1 letter: adder, dared, dawed, dewar, dread, readd, waded, wader, wared.
	-2 letters: awed, dare, dead, dear, draw, drew, read, redd, wade, ward, ware, wear.
	-3 letters: add, are, awe, dad, daw, dew, ear, era, rad, raw, red, wad, wae, war, wed.
	-4 letters: ad, ae, ar, aw, de, ed, er, re, we.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-r-w"
	+1 letter: awarded, bedward, dawdler, drawled, dwarfed, swarded, wadders, waddler.
	+2 letters: bedwards, dawdlers, headword, rawhided, rewarded, sideward, twaddler, waddlers, wandered.
	+3 letters: bedwarfed, cedarwood, dewatered, downgrade, forwarded, hardwired, headwords, sidewards, stewarded, twaddlers, unawarded.
	+4 letters: becowarded, cedarwoods, downgraded, downgrades, drawbridge, dreamworld, misawarded, unrewarded, widespread, wonderland, woodlander.
	+5 letters: bladderwort, chowderhead, downhearted, drawbridges, dreamworlds, warmblooded, wonderlands, woodlanders, wrongheaded.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.