sawed

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔːd
• Homophones: sod (in accents with the cot-caught merger), sword (in non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Etymology 1

Regular addition of the past tense suffix -ed to saw.

Verb

sawed

1. simple past and past participle of saw

Etymology 2

Nonstandard addition of -ed to saw, which is already a strong past tense form of see.

Verb

sawed

1. (dialectal, often humorous) simple past of see
   • 1903, Darnley: Or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold:

     "Yes, yes, el Pero! that was himself!" cried the captain; "I sawed him at the ale-house at Penzance with my own eye."

Anagrams

• Dawes, wades