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Meaning of knowed | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

simple past and past participle of know

form-of, nonstandard, often, participle, past

Examples

“Is made more imbecile by being constantly informed that Mrs. Green’s son “was a law-writer his-self and knowed him better than anybody,” which son of Mrs. Green’s appears, on inquiry, to be at the present time aboard a vessel bound for China, three months out, but considered accessible by telegraph on application to the Lords of the Admiralty.”
“I was pretty tired, and the first thing I knowed I was asleep.”
“"If I'd knowed she was going to do it I'd never have signed that there partnership she smoodged me into signing[.]"”
“And it ain't no use in a-turning on yer light babe: the light I never knowed.”
“[Carla Jean, to Chigurh about to kill her:] I knowed you was crazy when I seen you settin there, she said. I knowed exactly what was in store for me. Even if I couldnt of said it. [sic]”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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