wised
- 1Simple past and past participle of wise.
After years of being cheated, the old farmer wised up to the dealer's tricks.
They had wised up to the scheme before any money changed hands.
Note
A regular past form: the final e of wise simply takes -d, and one spelling serves both "she wised up" and "she had wised up." Most of its life is spent in slang wise up, which runs both ways. Someone wises you up, or you wise up on your own. Dialect keeps older senses of instructing, advising and guiding, as when a pilot wised a boat's course.
A neighbor wised her up about the landlord's habits.
Nobody had wised the new clerk up to the office rules.
wised is a form of wise
wise, verb: To inform someone of the truth, or to come to learn it, usually in the form "wise up". Full entry
- Spelling
- wise → wised: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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