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CREWED
Adjective
crewed (not comparable)
Having a crew; manned; piloted.
Verb
crewed
simple past tense and past participle of crew
Anagrams
• decrew
Source: Wiktionary
CREW
Crew (kr), n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The Manx shearwater.
Crew (kr), n. Etym: [From older accrue accession, reAccrue, Crescent.]
1. A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng. There a noble crew Of lords and ladies stood on every side. Spenser. Faithful to whom to thy rebellious crew Milton.
2. The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.
Note: The word crew, in law, is ordinarily used as equivalent to ship's company, including master and other officers. When the master and other officers are excluded, the context always shows it. Story. Burrill.
3. In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew.
Syn.
– Company; band; gang; horde; mob; herd; throng; party.
Crew (kr),
Definition: imp. of Crow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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