Dyed

  

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Dyed

Definition: Dyed

Dyed

Adjective

1. Colored or impregnated with dye.

2. (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a bleached blonde".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dyed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

 

Synonyms: Dyed

Synonyms: bleached (adj), colored (adj), coloured (adj), tinted (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: undyed (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Dyed

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Affections

Inborn, inbred, ingrained; deep-rooted, ineffaceable, inveterate; pathoscopic; congenital, dyed in the wool, implanted by nature, inherent, in the grain.

Cooperation

Adjective: cooperating; Verb: in cooperation; Noun: in league; (party); coadjuvant, coadjutant; dyed in the wool; cooperative; additive; participative; coactive, synergetic, synergistic.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Dyed

English words defined with "dyed": batikcamo, camouflage, colorfast, crockDutch pink, dyed-in-the-woolfastGrainedhennaedKalmuckNacaratprint, punksSeal-brown, Skiver, stain, stained, stammelTo dye in grain, Turkey redundyed, untintedWool-dyedyarn-dyed. (references)
Specialty definitions using "dyed": AGER OPERATOR, air fern, art-sergebeaver lamb, bombasin, bombazin, BREAKER-MACHINE TENDERcarrier loader, COLOR CHECKER, ROVING OR YARN, COLORING-MACHINE OPERATORdrier operator, drying-machine operator, DRYING-MACHINE OPERATOR, PACKAGE YARNS, Dyed Beards, DYED-YARN OPERATOR, dye-house supervisor, DYE-LAB TECHNICIAN, DYER, SUPERVISOR, DYE-STAND LOADEREXTRACTOR OPERATORfiber-drier operator, FORMULA CLERK, FUR CLEANER, fur dry-cleanergeneral matcherhair blender, HAIR PREPARER, Harmonia's Robe, HOOKING-MACHINE OPERATOR, HOSIERY MENDERIngrain Colourskier drier, KNAVE IN GRAINLABORATORY ASSISTANT, laboratory teste, LAUNDRY-MACHINE TENDER, liberty satinmender, hand, mender, machineOPEN-DEVELOPER OPERATOR, oven-drier tenderpackage drier, PACKAGE DYEING MACHINE, package-dye-stand loader, piece-dyed, port drier, PresentableRAW-STOCK-DRIER TENDER, roller printer, ROLLER-PRINT TENDER, rope marks, RUG-DRYING-MACHINE OPERATOR, running markssawdust-machine operator, SHADE MATCHER, shade-and-quality checker, SKEIN-YARN-DYER HELPER, stack matcher, STAINING-MACHINE OPERATOR, STEAMER TENDER, stock-drier tender, strip shader, suction-machine operator, superintendent, dyeingtear-down matcher, tip coloured mohair velours, tip coloured shaggy suede, TRAY DRIERvacuum-extractor operator, VanocWET-COTTON FEEDER. (references)
Etymologies containing "dyed": Dye. (references)

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Modern Usage: Dyed

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Just picture your wife fifteen years younger, twenty pounds lighter, her hair dyed, her nose operated on. The same girl (The Smiling Lieutenant; writing credit: Henri Bataille; Felix Dormann)

That was a thirty-two dollar sweater, missy, and you dyed it black, didn't you (Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael; writing credit: Karen Leigh Hopkins)

Lyrics

Whose worst fear is a child with dyed hair and who likes earrings (Sing For The Moment; performing artist: EMINEM)

She gone and dyed her hair red (Three Marlenas; performing artist: The Wallflowers)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Dyed

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Woven, Bleached, Mercerized, Dyed, and Printed Cotton Fabrics in Africa (reference)

  • The 2003 World Market Forecasts for Imported Woven, Bleached, Mercerized, Dyed, and Printed Cotton Fabrics (reference)

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Woven, Bleached, Mercerized, Dyed, and Printed Cotton Fabrics in Malaysia (reference)

  • The 2002 World Forecasts of Woven, Bleached, Mercerized, Dyed, and Printed Cotton Fabrics Export Supplies (reference)

  • The 2003 World Forecasts of Woven, Bleached, Mercerized, Dyed, and Printed Cotton Fabrics Export Supplies (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Woven, Bleached, Mercerized, Dyed, and Printed Cotton Fabrics in Africa [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • Photochemistry of Dyed and Pigmented Polymers. Ed by N.S. Allen (reference)

  • Printed and Dyed Textiles from Africa (Fabric Folios) (reference)

  • More Magic Wool: Creating Figures and Pictures with Dyed Wool (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Dyed

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Photo Album: Dyed

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Photographed on board ship, probably at the time of the Vera Cruz incident, circa April 1914. These sailors are wearing Marine Corps flannel shirts and khaki trousers, with dyed "white hats". They are posing with M1903 "Springfield" rifles and at least one man is wearing an ammunition belt. The ship may be USS South Carolina (BB-26). Credit: NAVY.

Men of the USS Michigan (BB-27) Battalion on the outskirts of Vera Cruz, circa late April 1914. They are wearing dyed "Whites" and are armed with a Colt M1895 machine gun and M1903 rifles. Note the colorful bandannas worn by two of these men. Credit: NAVY.

Dyed woolen skeins of thread at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) weaving project. Costilla, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Dyed
 

"Blue Daisies" by Velda Christensen
Commentary: "These are just some blue daisies I bought for myself. I think they're dyed blue, but they're kinda cute anyway."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Dyed

AuthorQuotation

St. Jerome

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Dyed

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

Let there be one measure of wine throughout our whole realm; and one measure of ale; and one measure of corn, to wit, "the London quarter"; and one width of cloth (whether dyed, or russet, or "halberget"), to wit, two ells within the selvedges; of weights also let it be as of measures. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Dyed

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Dyed cloth makes up around 80% - 87% of the country’s total production of cloth. (references)

Based on the ratio, production growth of dyed fabrics over the past five years is as shown in the following table. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place. In Boorioboola-Gha a man is presentable on occasions of ceremony if he have his abdomen painted a bright blue and wear a cow's tail; in New York he may, if it please him, omit the paint, but after sunset he must wear two tails made of the wool of a sheep and dyed black.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Dyed

"Dyed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 37.04% of the time. "Dyed" is used about 162 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)37.04%6043,597
Lexical Verb (past tense)30.25%4948,677
Adjective (general or positive)30.25%4948,677
Noun (proper)2.47%4175,879
                    Total100.00%162N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Dyed

Expressions using "dyed": aniline dyed be dyed dyed agate dyed in grain dyed in the wool top dyed. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "dyed": dyed-blonde, dyed-in-the, dyed-in-the-grain, dyed-in-the-wool, dyed-in-the-wool yarn-dyed.

Ending with "dyed": tie-dyed.

Containing "dyed": double-dyed villain.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dyed

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dyed hair

55

dyed hair pic

6

tie dyed t shirt

37

dyed hand skirt

6

hand dyed fabric

25

hand dyed blouse

6

tie dyed

22

dyed mulch

5

tie dyed shirt

19

bedding dyed tie

5

hand dyed yarn

12

dyed head lacrosse

5

dyed

12

dyed hair style

5

tye dyed

10

dyed polyester pre staple

5

dyed hair picture

10

dyed hand pattern wool

5

dyed spun

9

dyed make shirt tee tie

4

hand dyed

8

tye dyed t shirt

4

deep dyed

7

dyed hair pubic

4

coral dyed

7

dyed in wool

4

pigment dyed sweatshirt

7

tie dyed tee shirt

4

tie dyed clothing

7

hand dyed silk ribbon

4

tye dyed shirt

7

dyed fabric tie

4

dyed wire

7

dyed embroidery yarn

4

dyed shoes

6

concrete dyed scored

4

dyed sheet tie

6

dope dyed

4

tie dyed clothes

6

dyed shoes wedding

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Dyed

Language Translations for "dyed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i ngjyer (floury, ingrain, ingrained), i lyer (tinted). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مصبوغ (colored, coloured), ‏مخضب (pigmental, tinged). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

закостенял (dyed in the wool). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

洗染 (Dyeing). (various references)

   

Czech

  

barvený. (various references)

   

Danish

  

univare (plain dyed fabric), spindkagefarvet (cake dyed), klædestof fremstillet af farvet løsuld (cloth dyed in the wool), gennemfarvede fibre (fibres dyed in the mass), film med farvet emulsions-underlag (dyed-base film), farvet stof (dyed fabric, dyed woven fabric), farvet som tops (top dyed), farvet haar (dyed hair), farvet garn (coloured yarn, dyed yarn), farvet agat (dyed agate), ensfarvet vare (plain dyed fabric), anilinfarvet (aniline dyed). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vat-geverfd leder (aniline dyed), textielvezels die in de massa zijn gekleurd (fibres dyed in the mass), geverfde stof (dyed fabric), geverfd weefsel (dyed woven fabric), geverfd haar (dyed hair), geverfd garen (dyed yarn), gekleurde agaat (dyed agate), film met geverfde basis (dyed-base film). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

värjäyttää (have dyed), värjätty perusfilmi (dyed-base film), aniliinivärjätty (aniline dyed, aniline stained). (various references)

   

French

  

teintes, teint, teignit, teignis, teignirent, teignîmes. (various references)

   

German

  

gefärbt (artificially colored, biased, coloured, slanted, tinged, tinted), färbte (colored, coloured, tinctured, tinted). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

έβαψε τα μαλλιά του μαύρα (he dyed his hair black), έβαψε τα μαλλιά του (he dyed his hair), έβαψε τα μαλλία του μαύρα (he dyed his hair black), βαμένα αυγά (dyed eggs), βαμένο ύφασμα (dyed fabric), βαφή φυτιλιού (top dyed), νήμα βαμμένο στο φούρνο,σε ταψί (cake dyed), υφαντικές ίνες βαμμένες στη μάζα (fibres dyed in the mass), φιλμ χρωστικού υποστρώματος (dyed-base film), τρίχες βαμμένες (dyed hair), δέρμα χρωματισμένο με χρώμα ανιλίνης (aniline dyed), δέρμα ανιλίνης (aniline dyed). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

festett (painted). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

celupan (dyed article, dyeing). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tinto in tops (top dyed), tinto in focaccia (cake dyed), tinto all'anilina (aniline dyed), tessuto tinto in lana (cloth dyed in the wool), tessuto tinto (dyed woven fabric), tessuto a tinta unita (plain dyed fabric), stoffa tinta (dyed fabric), film con base dipinta (dyed-base film), filato tinto (dyed yarn), fibre tessili tinte in massa (fibres dyed in the mass), capelli tinti (dyed hair), agata tinta (dyed agate). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

茶髪 (hair dyed brown), 黒く染まる (to be dyed black), 筋金入り (dyed-in-the-wool, hardcore, staunch), 染物 (dyed goods, goods to be dyed), 染め色 (dyed color), 染め糸 (dyed thread or yarn), 染め物 (dyed goods, dyeing), 染め型 (dyed pattern, dyeing stencil), 染め模様 (dyed pattern), 染め上がり (being dyed), 染め分け (dyed in various colors), 染み付く (to be dyed in deeply, to be indelibly stained or ingrained), 墨染め (dark, dyed black, dying black), 付く (to accompany, to adhere, to adjoin, to be added to, to be attached, to be connected with, to be dyed, to be recorded, to be scarred, to be stained, to become allied to, to follow, to increase, to start, to study with). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

すじがねいり (dyed-in-the-wool, hardcore, staunch), すみぞめ (dark, dyed black, dying black), そめがた (dyed pattern, dyeing stencil), くろくそまる (to be dyed black), そめいろ (dyed color), そめいと (dyed thread or yarn), そめあがり (being dyed), そめわけ (dyed in various colors), そめもの (dyed goods, dyeing, goods to be dyed), そめもよう (dyed pattern), しみつく (to be dyed in deeply, to be frozen to, to be indelibly stained, to be indelibly stained or ingrained, to be ingrained, to freeze to), つく (comes on, to accompany, to adhere, to adjoin, to arrive at, to attach to, to attack, to be added to, to be attached, to be connected with, to be dyed, to be recorded, to be scarred, to be stained, to become allied to, to breathe, to catch fire, to disgorge, to follow, to haunt, to increase, to nudge, to pick at, to poke, to possess, to reach, to settle in, to start, to strike, to study, to study with, to take, to tell, to thrust, to vomit), ちゃぱつ (hair dyed brown). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

염색하는. (various references)

   

Manx

  

daahit (coloured, painted, pigmented, stained). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

yedday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

direito (claim, correct, dexter, downright, dyed-in-the, endlong, entitlement, erect, freehearted, jurisprudence, justice, law, lien, respectable, right, righteous, righthand, royalty, standing, stand-up, straight, straightaway, straightforward, title, unswerving, upright, upstanding, vertical, warrant), tinto em queijo (cake dyed), tinto em fita (top dyed), tingimento a anilina (aniline dyed), tecido tinto na rama (cloth dyed in the wool), tecido tinto (dyed fabric, dyed woven fabric), tecido liso (plain dyed fabric), sincero (artless, candid, convinced, cordial, deep, direct, downright, dyed-in-the, earnest, frank, freehearted, guileless, heartfelt, hearty, honest, ingenuous, open-hearted, outright, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, simple, simple-hearted, sincere, single-hearted, straight, straightforward, strong, true, true-hearted, unaffected, undisguised, unfeigned, unvarnished, whole-hearted, whole-souled), película com base colorida (dyed-base film), franco (above-board, bluff, candid, clear, direct, downright, dyed-in-the, forthright, franc, frank, freehearted, guileless, honest, ingenuous, large-hearted, non-partisan, open-hearted, outright, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, plump, simple, simple-hearted, sincere, single-hearted, straightforward, unconcealed, undisguised, unequivocal), fio tinto (coloured yarn, dyed yarn), fibras têxteis tintas em bruto (fibres dyed in the mass), completo (absolute, all out, all-around, all-out, all-round, arrant, bijou, clean, complete, completed, done, downright, dyed-in-the, egregious, entire, exhaustive, freehearted, full, fullbodied, outright, plenary, plumb, precious, round, run-down, sheer, sweeping, teetotal, thorough, thoroughgoing, through, thru, total, unabridged, unalloyed, unmitigated, utter, whole), cabelo corado (dyed hair), ágata tinta (dyed agate). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

colorat (colored, coloured, florid, painted, ruddy). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

красить крашеный, крашеный (colored, coloured, painted). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

dathte. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

obojen (colored, coloured, painted). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

colorado (Colorado, colored, coloured, naughty, red, scarlet). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

oförbätterlig (confirmed, dyed in the wool, incorrigible, irredeemable), av färgat garn (dyed in the wool), anilinfärgat läder (aniline dyed). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ซึ่งย้อมสี. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

boyalı (colored, coloured, made up, painted, painty, staining, with make-up). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

пофарбований (colored, coloured, stained). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

ngoan cố (bullet-headed, dyed-in-the-wool, froward, opinionated, pertaincious, recalcitrant, tenacious, unadvisable). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Dyed

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

madidus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Dyed

LanguageDateSourceLuke Chapter 20, Verse 32
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintUsteron de pantwn apeqanen kai h gunh
Latin405VulgateNovissima omnium mortua est et mulier
Old English990West Saxonþa ealra ytemest wæs þæt wif dead;
Middle English1395WyclifAnd the laste of alle the womman is deed.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleLast of all the woma dyed also.
Jacobean English1611King JamesLast of all the woman died also.
Victorian English1833WebsterLast of all the woman died also.
Basic English1964OgdenAnd last of all, the woman came to her end.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Dyed

LanguageLuke Chapter 20, Verse 32
BulgarianА после умря и жената.
CebuanoUg unya ang babaye usab mamatay.
CroatianNaposljetku umrije i žena.
DanishMen til sidst døde også Hustruen.
DutchEn ten laatste na allen stierf ook de vrouw.
FinnishViimeiseksi vaimokin kuoli.
FrenchEnfin, la femme mourut aussi.
GermanZuletzt nach allen starb auch das Weib.
Haitian CreoleApre yo tout fin mouri, fanm lan mouri poutèt pa l' tou.
HungarianMind ezek után pedig meghalt az asszony is.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariAkhirnya wanita itu meninggal juga.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaKemudian sekali matilah pula perempuan itu.
ItalianDa ultimo anche la donna morì.
Korean그 후 에 여 자 도 죽 었 나 이 다
LatvianBeigâs pçc visiem nomira sieva.
MaoriNa muri iho i te katoa ka mate hoki te wahine.
NorwegianTil sist døde også kvinnen.
PortugueseDepois morreu também a mulher.   
RumanianLa urma tuturor, a murit wi femeia.
RussianРПУМЕ ЧУЕИ ХНЕТМБ Й ЦЕОБ;
ShuarTura ukunam nuwasha jakamai.
SwahiliMwishowe akafa pia yule mwanamke.
SwedishSlutligen dog ock hustrun.
UmaKa'omea-na mate wo'o-imi-hawo tobine toei.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Dyed

Derivations

Words ending with "dyed": overdyed, redyed, undyed. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Dyed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deye, deyt, dide, di'ed, diex, djed, dred, dryde, dryed, dryet, dwed, d'ya, dyade, dyd, dyee, D'yeh, dyen, dyid, dyked, oyed, tyed, yed. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Dyed"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "dyed" (pronounced dī"d)
3d ī" ddied.
2-ī" dabide, allied, alongside, applied, aside, astride, belied, beside, betide, bide, bride, chide, coincide, collide, complied, confide, cried, decide, decried, defied, denied, deride, lied, divide, dried, Eide, eyed, flied, fried, glide, guide, hide, implied, inside, misapplied, misguide, nationwide, outside, oversupplied, pied, plied, preside, pride, pried, provide, relied, replied, reside, retried, ride, shied, side, sighed, slide, snide, spied, Stateside, stride, subdivide, subside, supplied, tide, tied, tried, untied, untried, upside, vide, vied, wide, worldwide.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Dyed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: eddy.

Words within the letters "d-d-e-y"

-1 letter: dey, dye.

-2 letters: de, ed, ye.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-e-y"
 

+1 letter: deedy, dyked, teddy.

 

+2 letters: daybed, deadly, drayed, dynode, redyed, undyed, yarded, yodled.

 

+3 letters: addedly, datedly, daybeds, dayside, dazedly, deadeye, decayed, decoyed, delayed, diddley, doddery, dodgery, dramedy, dryades, dyeweed, dyewood, dynodes, eddying, fadedly, hydride, jadedly, lyddite, yielded, yodeled.

 

+4 letters: aldehyde, bendayed, bladdery, cyanided, daydream, daysides, deadeyes, deeryard, defrayed, deployed, deucedly, dialysed, dialyzed, diddleys, dismayed, disyoked, doggedly, domesday, drudgery, dyeweeds, dyewoods, hiddenly, hoydened, hydrated, hydrides, lyddites, overdyed, peddlery, saddlery, shuddery, skydived, soddenly, suddenly, vandyked, yodelled.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Historic
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Usage Frequency
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Translations: Ancient
17. Bible Trace
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams
21. Bibliography


  

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