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dyed en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. Coloured or tinted with dye, or as though therewith.
    • Girded with girdles vpon their loynes, exceeding in dyed attire vpon their heads, all of them princes to looke to, after the maner of the Babylonians of Caldea, the land of their natiuitie: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 23:15:
    • Gon. That our Garments being (as they were) drencht in the Sea, hold notwithſtanding their freſhneſſe and gloſſes, being rather new dy'de then ſtain'd with ſalte water. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 6:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
more dyed Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most dyed Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

double-dyed · dyed-in-the-wool · deep-dyed · dyed in the wool · wool-dyed · nondyed · undyed

Translations (51)

fr teint (colored with dye) · grc βαπτός (colored with dye) · es teñido (colored with dye) · pt tingido (colored with dye) · et värvitud (colored with dye) · cmn 玷汙的 /玷污的 (colored with dye) · alt бойогон (colored with dye) · ru кра́шенный (colored with dye) · cmn 染過的 /染过的 (colored with dye) · la tinctus (colored with dye) · sv kolorerad (colored with dye) · mg fondranina (colored with dye) · ja 染め (colored with dye) · sv färgad (colored with dye) · ru выкра́шенный (colored with dye) · hu festett (colored with dye) · da farvet (colored with dye) · ro colorat (colored with dye) · tr boyalı (colored with dye) · ka შეღებილი (colored with dye) · sk farbený (colored with dye) · fi värjätty (colored with dye) · pt tinto (colored with dye) · ru окра́шенный (colored with dye) · ja 染めた (colored with dye) · is litað (colored with dye) · nb farget (colored with dye) · la suffectus (colored with dye) · pon rei (colored with dye) · hi सारंग (colored with dye) · ru покра́шенный (colored with dye) · pl farbowany (colored with dye) · it tinto (colored with dye) · ca tenyit (colored with dye) · el βαμμένος (colored with dye) · cmn 上色的 (colored with dye) · nl geverfd (colored with dye) · es tinto (colored with dye) · vi nhuộm (colored with dye) · sa रक्त (colored with dye) · cs barvený (colored with dye) · pl barwiony (colored with dye) · ro tincturat (colored with dye) · ar مَصْبُوغ (colored with dye) · gl tinxido (colored with dye) · ga daite (colored with dye) · gl tinguido (colored with dye) · de gefärbt (colored with dye) · th ย้อม (colored with dye) · nb farga (colored with dye) · mg natoina (colored with dye)

dyed en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of dye
    form of dye
  2. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete spelling of died.
    alt of died
    • Thomas Tinker, and his wife and sone, all dyed in the first sicknes. 1651, William Bradford, The names of those which came over first, in the year 1620, and were (by the blessing of God) the first beginners, and (in a sort) the foundation, of all the plantations, and Colonies, in New England (And their families).:
    • How many Masters have some stately Houses had, in the age of a small Cottage, that hath, as it were, lived, and dyed with her old Master, both dropping down together. 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English: