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Bated vs Baed - What's the difference?

bated | baed |

As verbs the difference between bated and baed

is that bated is (bate) while baed is (ba).

As an adjective bated

is reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath.

bated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath.

    • Derived terms

    * with bated breath

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bate)

    • baed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (ba)

    • Anagrams

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    ba

    English

    (wikipedia ba)

    Etymology 1

    Compare Old French ; French bayer

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To kiss.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • In ancient Egyptian mythology, a being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.
  • * 1983 , Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings :
    • But the Ba , I remembered, could be seen as the mistress of your heart and might or might not decide to speak to you, just as the heart cannot always forgive.

    Anagrams

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