wast

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
7
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/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

  1. (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

  1. (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

  1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of waist.

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Etymology

From Late Middle English wast; equivalent to was + -est.

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