Meanings
- archaicpoetic-ed.
Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath steeld
1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 24”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC1 more example
But when the train came near to Wormit Bay, Boreas he did loud and angry bray, And shook the central girders of the Bridge of Tay On the last Sabbath day of 1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.
1880, William Topaz McGonagall, The Tay Bridge Disaster - Sometimes used to form the past tense of some awkward verbs that are in the form of numerals, letters, and abbreviations, especially in online communication. Compare -’s.
That guy just got KO'd!
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Google Plus - You +1'd this.
I just lol'd but then stopped and realized this wasn't funny.
The eval function also compromises the security of your application, because it grants too much authority to the eval'd text.
2008, Douglas Crockford, JavaScript: The Good Parts
Cite this entry
-'d. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-'d
“-'d.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-'d. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “-'d,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-'d.
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