sawed
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɔːd
- Homophones: sod (in accents with the cot-caught merger), sword (in non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
Etymology 1
[edit]Regular addition of the past tense suffix -ed to saw.
Verb
[edit]sawed
- simple past and past participle of saw
Etymology 2
[edit]Nonstandard addition of -ed to saw, which is already a strong past tense form of see.
Verb
[edit]sawed
- (dialectal, often humorous) simple past of see
- 1903, Darnley: Or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold:
- "Yes, yes, el Pero! that was himself!" cried the captain; "I sawed him at the ale-house at Penzance with my own eye."