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Definition of "greaved" []

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

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Use "greaved" in a sentence
  • "Weeping, the well-greaved Achaeans turned-off with headlong speed to the shore of the much-resounding sea, since they were being massacred at the hands of the relentless man Telephus."
  • "And when for beautiful he says “endowed with beautiful cheeks,” and for well armed he says “well greaved.”"
  • "There were the floating, pale - grey clouds; and the immitigable tree; the implacable tree with its greaved silver bark."
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