Definition of "bossed" [bossed]

• Simple past tense and past participle of boss. (verb)

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• "Not every child can have these blessings of the country, but every child can be protected from the stifling of the nature instinct of play by formal indoor "bossed" exercises, whether called games, physical training, gymnastics, or Delsarte."
• "Here he was, subject to the caprice and ill-will of a sour and miserly Senior Warden, and a cowed and at least partially "bossed" vestry -- and he, the rector, with no practical power of appeal for the enforcement of his legal contract."
• "It "bossed," by establishing a superiority of numbers, the Standing Committee."