gad
verb (used without object)
to move restlessly or aimlessly from one place to another.
gadded
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past participleof gad.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof gad.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
gadverb (used without object)to move restlessly or aimlessly from one place to another.
Example Sentences
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One was back in the city, on the evening of a reporter’s visit, to be followed the next day by a conference where he gadded about with John Legend.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2015
So while Johann I gadded about, Johann II composed and practiced the organ in church.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Ogletree even primped her boy Georgie, whom she’d gadded up in a green velvet Little Lord Fauntleroy suit.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
But if it gets out that I gadded about for a day with an officer, even though he is a padre, and that we went miles out of town, there'll be some row, my boy.
From Simon Called Peter by Robert Keable
You will allow that we have gadded about enough lately: Sonna, Pakenham Hall, Farnham, and Castle Forbes.
From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1 by Augustus J. C. Hare
