sold

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of sell

comparative more sold · superlative most sold

1. informalConvinced, won over.

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   I type ‘high cortisol’ into the search bar and keep scrolling. ‘You’re not ugly, you just have cortisol face,’ declares one video. ‘POV you finally drop the cortisol belly,’ reads another. A third screams in caps lock, ‘HOW TO LOWER CORTISOL’. I’m sold. Cortisol is to blame for everything. But how do I fix it?

   2026 March 20, Brit Dawson, “‘I went on a cortisol ‘detox’ to tackle my spiralling anxiety — here’s what happened’”, in Cosmopolitan

1. obsoletesalary; military pay

   But were your will her sold to entertaine

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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   Lying in campe under sold and pay, fighting as souldiers.

   1601, William Barlow, A Defense of the Articles of the Protestant Religion in answer to a libell lately cast abroad