wast

From Late Middle English wast; equivalent to was +‎ -est.

• Rhymes: -ɒst

wast

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past form of be
   • 1600, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 2, (a hunting song),

     "Take thou no scorn to wear the horn, It was a crest ere thou wast born ..."

   • 1611, The Bible, King James (Authorised) Version, (first & last usages),

     Genesis 3:11 "And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?"

     Revelation 16:5 "And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus."

   • 1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, lines 97-99

     Alas! We two, we two, thou say'st!

     Yea, one wast thou with me

     That once of old.

wast (plural wasts)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of waist

• “wast” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “wast” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

• 'twas, ATWS, AWTs, S.W.A.T., SWAT, Swat, TWAs, WSTA, sawt, staw, swat, taws, wats

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• Rhymes: -ɑst
• IPA^(key): /ʋɑst/

wast

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of wassen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of wassen

wast

1. Romanization of 𐍅𐌰𐍃𐍄

From was +‎ -est; partially replacing earlier were.

wast

1. (Late Middle English) Second-person singular past indicative form of been

• English: wast (obsolete)

wast m (oblique plural waz or watz, nominative singular waz or watz, nominative plural wast)

1. Alternative form of gast

Scots form of English west.

wast (comparative mair wast, superlative maist wast)

1. west
2. back, sideways; upstream

wast

1. west
2. over, across

   She wis walkin wast the road. - She was walking across the road.

wast (comparative mair wast, superlative maist wast)

1. west