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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For centuries the Venetian republic husbanded its natural resources, keeping the lagoon from filling in through sedimentation and protecting its water quality.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 10, 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
Others husbanded their deutschemarks like farmers girding against unforeseen misfortune.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2014
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
