wast

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Verb 1.2.1 References 1.3 See also 1.4 Anagrams 2 Dutch 2.1 Verb 3 Scots 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Adverb 3.3 Preposition 3.4 Adjective

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒst

[edit] Verb

wast

1. (archaic) Second-person singular simple past tense indicative of be.
   • 1600, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 2, (a hunting song),

     "Take thou no scorn to wear the horn, It was a crest ere thou wast born ..."

   • 1611, The Bible, King James (Authorised) Version, (first & last usages),

     Genesis 3:11 "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?"

     Revelation 16:5 "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."

   • 1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, lines 97-99

     Alas! We two, we two, thou say'st!

     Yea, one wast thou with me

     That once of old.

[edit] References

• “wast” in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
• “wast” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.

[edit] See also

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of astw
• swat, Swat, SWAT
• taws
• 'twas, TWAs
• WSTA

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Verb

wast

1. The second-person singular present tense of wassen.
2. The third-person singular present tense of wassen.

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[edit] Scots

[edit] Etymology

Scots form of English west.

[edit] Adverb

wast (comparative mair wast, superlative maist wast)

1. west
2. back, sideways; upstream

[edit] Preposition

wast

1. west
2. over, across

   She wis walkin wast the road.

[edit] Adjective

wast (comparative mair wast, superlative maist wast)

1. west