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Wildered vs Windered - What's the difference?

wildered | windered |

As verbs the difference between wildered and windered

is that wildered is past tense of wilder while windered is past tense of winder.

wildered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (wilder)

    • wilder

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bewilder, perplex
  • * 1922 XXIV, lines 29-30
    • Now, to smother noise and light,
    Is stolen abroad the wildering night,
  • *{{quote-book, year=1913, author=Smyrnaeus Quintus, title=The Fall of Troy, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Now in their hearts those wildered Trojans said That once more they beheld Achilles' self Gigantic in his armour. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1879, author=Emma Lazarus, title=The Poems of Emma Lazarus, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=More tender, grateful than she could have dreamed, Fond hands passed pitying over brows and hair, And gentle words borne softly through the air, Calming her weary sense and wildered mind, By welcome, dear communion with her kind. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1854, author=Effie Afton, title=Eventide, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Deep and far within the ether stretched my eyes their anxious gaze, While the swelling thoughts within me grew a wild and wildered maze, Then came floating on the distance, softly to my listening ears, Low, thrilling harmonies of worlds whirling in their bright spheres. }}

    Derived terms

    * bewilder

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (wild)

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    windered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (winder)

    • winder

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A textile worker, or machine, that winds cloth
  • A spool around which something is wound
  • A key or knob for winding a clock, watch or clockwork mechanism
  • One of the steps of a spiral staircase (as opposed to a flyer, or straight step).

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A blow that winds somebody, or takes away their breath.
  • *1913 ,
  • *:"Well!" exclaimed the miner. "That's a winder ." He considered it a moment, said "H'm!" and proceeded with his dinner. Suddenly his face contracted with wrath. "I hope he may never set foot i' my house again," he said.

    • Etymology 3

    Related to winnow.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fan; to clean grain with a fan.

    • Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1868 , Ann Sophia Stephens, Doubly False
    • That accounts for my having the dress, but it don't account for the piece that you left sticking to the rose-bush under Mrs. Lander's bed-room winder , which piece I took off that morning, and which piece I matched with the dress after you pitched it at me over them bannisters

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