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Definition of "wast" []

  • Archaic A second person singular past tense of be. (verb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "wast" in a sentence
  • "For example, someone blurts out "james! his name wast james!""
  • "The flap is there because the X-Box is tapered at the "wast"."
  • ""I make use of 'wast' for the second person of the perfect-indicative, and 'wert' for the present-potential, simply to be understood; as I should hardly be if I substituted the latter for the former, and therewith ended my phrase."
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