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knowed

[ nohd ]

/ noʊd /

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verb Nonstandard.

a simple past tense and past participle of know¹.

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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

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Words nearby knowed

know beans, know better, know by heart, know by sight, knowe, knowed, know enough to come in out of the rain, know from Adam, know-how, know if one is coming or going, knowing

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Example sentences from the Web for knowed

I knowed, a-course, that I could go kick up a fuss when Simpson stopped by his office on his trip back from Goldstone.
Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher|Eleanor Gates
I dunno's I'd know when t' jar loose m'self, if I knowed her an' she didn't object t' me hangin' around.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
The way them boys was tellin' about the teachers they had knowed made me feel for your life when I seen you come in.
The Soldier of the Valley|Nelson Lloyd
I sit down on a trunk (it had a tidy over it, but I knowed it was a trunk all right), and Macie, she sit down byside me.
Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher|Eleanor Gates

There's lots of women around here that can ride, but I never knowed before that the clothes counted so much.
Mystery Ranch|Arthur Chapman

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