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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Power, strength, ability.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, uncountable, usually
Qualifier: obsolete except in derivatives
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
alternative past of dow
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alternative, dialectal, form-of, past
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
A back-formation from doughty (compare Scots doucht, from douchty). Related to dow.
From Middle English doghte, from Old English dohte (first and third person singular past tense of dugan (“to avail, be useful”)).
