# sawed

Pronunciation: say "SAWD" US /sɔd/, UK /sɔːd/

## Verb

1. Simple past and past participle of saw. — simple past and past participle of saw
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of saw. Use it for the past, or after has, have, had, is, was or were.
   - _The carpenter sawed through the thick oak beam with steady effort._
   - _Once the branches were sawed off, the trunk was easy to move._
2. Simple past of see. Dialectal or humorous; the standard form is saw. *(dialectal)* — simple past of see
   - Simple: Past tense of see. In some dialects, people use this instead of "saw".
   - _We sawed the deer cross the road just before the bend._
   - _Reckon I sawed your brother in town last week._

## Origin

**Meaning 1** — Formed by the regular addition of the past tense suffix "-ed" to "saw."
**Meaning 2** — A nonstandard form made by adding "-ed" to "saw," which is itself already the strong past tense form of "see."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/sawed (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).