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yede

verb · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

simple past of go, now replaced by went.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, obsolete, past

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verb

Meaning 2

To go (mistakenly used as a pseudo-archaism by 16th-century poets and their imitators).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: literary, obsolete

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History

Etymology

From Middle English ȝede, from Old English ēode.