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
John came home early, Meg gadded no more, and that greatcoat was put on in the morning by a very happy husband, and taken off at night by a most devoted little wife.
From Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Some months ago he had even ventured to tell her that he thought she gadded about a bit too much!
From Love and hatred by Marie Belloc Lowndes
