Gasted vs Gated - What's the difference?
gasted | gated |
(gast)
(obsolete) To frighten
(gate)
Capable of being switched on and off (normally by means of a signal).
Have a gate or other restricted access.
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As verbs the difference between gasted and gated
is that gasted is (gast) while gated is (gate).As an adjective gated is
capable of being switched on and off (normally by means of a signal).gasted
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* ----gast
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(en verb)- And be not so a-gast, for shame! —Geoffrey Chaucer, The House of Fame
- Or whether gasted by the noise I made, full suddenly he fled. —William Shakespeare, King Lear
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* ----gated
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(-)Architectural bombast, passage=Gated , gilded and gaudy, they have sprung up all over China: overwrought government buildings erected at vast public expense, and in stark contrast to the shoddy state of so many homes and schools. In style they range from modernist brutalism to Versailles kitsch.}}