husband
noun
a married man, especially when considered in relation to his partner in marriage.
husbanded
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past participleof husband.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 husband.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
husbandnouna married man, especially when considered in relation to his partner in marriage.
Example Sentences
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He married Paula Schwartz in 1983, and with her he tenderly husbanded the land, planting an effusion of flora.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2019
After his parents divorced, Folkert’s mom did yard work and landscaping and cleaned houses to earn money — which she husbanded with care.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2018
Tollett has not only husbanded the landscape; he has branded it.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 10, 2017
Instead, he husbanded it, and Russia grew rich.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2017
Even the wilderness is carefully husbanded there, and though that forest had been logged for centuries there were no waste places in it, no desolations of stumps, no eroded slopes.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
