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Prided vs Grided - What's the difference?

prided | grided |

As verbs the difference between prided and grided

is that prided is (pride) while grided is (gride).

prided

English

Verb

(head)
  • (pride)
  • * 1820 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow , Washington Irving
  • *:"Ichobod prided himself upon his dancing as much as upon his vocal powers. Not a limb, not a fibre about him was idle; and to have seen his loosely hung frame in full motion and clattering about the room you would have thought Saint Vitus himself, that blessed patron of the dance, was figuring before you in person."

    • grided

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (gride)

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    gride

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
  • *:She lightly lept out of her filed bedd, / And to her weapon ran, in minde to gride / The loathed leachour.
  • (obsolete) To travel (through) something, of a weapon or sharp object.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
    • His poinant speare he thrust with puissant sway / At proud Cymochles, whiles his shield was wyde, / That through his thigh the mortall steele did gryde [...].
  • To produce a grinding or scraping sound.

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