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TRUANTED
Verb
truanted
simple past tense and past participle of truant
Anagrams
• traunted
Source: Wiktionary
TRUANT
Tru"ant, n. Etym: [F. truand, OF. truant, a vagrant, beggar; of Celtic origin; cf. W. tru, truan, wretched, miserable, truan a wretch, Ir. trogha miserable, Gael. truaghan a poor, distressed, or wretched creature, truagh wretched.]
Definition: One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk. Dryden. I have a truant been to chivalry. Shak. To play truant, to stray away; to loiter; especially, to stay out of school without leave. Sir T. Browne
Tru"ant, a.
Definition: Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy. While truant Jove, in infant pride, Played barefoot on Olympus' side. Trumbull.
Tru"ant, v. i. Etym: [Cf. F. truander.]
Definition: To idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant. Shak. By this means they lost their time and truanted on the fundamental grounds of saving knowledge. Lowell.
Tru"ant, v. t.
Definition: To idle away; to waste. [R.] I dare not be the author Of truanting the time. Ford.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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