wast
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Letters
- 4
/wɒst/(UK)
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/wɒst/(UK) · /wɔst/(US) · /wɑst/ · /wəst/(UK)
Definition of wast
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(archaic, form-of, indicative, past, second-person, singular)second-person singular simple past indicative of be; wert.
“I remember the day when thou wast born.”
“Take thou no scorn to wear the horn, It was a crest ere thou wast born […]”
“And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?”
“And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.”
“Alas! We two, we two, thou say'st! Yea, one wast thou with me That once of old.”
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verb
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(archaic, form-of, indicative, past, second-person, singular)second-person singular simple past indicative of be; wert.
“I remember the day when thou wast born.”
“Take thou no scorn to wear the horn, It was a crest ere thou wast born […]”
“And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?”
“And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.”
“Alas! We two, we two, thou say'st! Yea, one wast thou with me That once of old.”
noun
- (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of waist.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Late Middle English wast; equivalent to was + -est.
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