verb (used with object), sawed, sawed or sawn, saw·ing.
verb (used without object), sawed, sawed or sawn, saw·ing.
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OTHER WORDS FROM sawsaw·er, nounsaw·like, adjective
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Definition for sawed (2 of 2)
Example sentences from the Web for sawed
According to Mack, he nearly killed her, broke 18 of her bones and, “sawed much of my hair off with [a] dull knife.”The MMA Fighters Have Gone Crazy: ‘Mayhem’ Miller the Latest in a Long Line of Psycho Pugilists|Robert Silverman|October 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In a matter of weeks, Putin has sawed the Crimea off Ukraine and glued it into the Russian Federation.Obama’s Nuclear Summit Aimed to Stop Terrorists. Now Putin’s the Issue.|Christopher Dickey, Jamie Dettmer, Nadette De Visser|March 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I had one gun, an M-1 from World War I, but it was sawed down a little bit.Mike Tyson Opens Up About His Rape Conviction, Brad Pitt, and Love of Pinkberry|Marlow Stern|November 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST
I knew boys who would have sawed their own arm off to have sex with a girl, were there a marketplace for such a transaction.
Violent and provocative, Boardwalk Empire's story isn't all sawed off shotguns and brutal beatings.
It must have hurt so horribly to be sawed in two, she thought.A Romance Of Tompkins Square|Thomas A. Janvier
This built up board is sawed into strips 1⁄8 inch thick, and these strips 3⁄8 × 1⁄8 inch form the basis of the design.Carpentry and Woodwork|Edwin W. Foster
Every now and then the hard, wiry line slipped off the nippers and sawed across his smarting fingers or palms.Jim Spurling, Fisherman|Albert Walter Tolman
Trees were to be cut down and wood was to be chopped, sawed, and split for the coming summer.Rural Life and the Rural School|Joseph Kennedy
A cottonwood tree, nearly two feet in diameter, was sawed into wheels.The Conquest|Eva Emery Dye
British Dictionary definitions for sawed (1 of 4)
British Dictionary definitions for sawed (2 of 4)
verb saws, sawing, sawed, sawed or sawn
Derived forms of sawsawer, nounsawlike, adjective
Word Origin for saw
British Dictionary definitions for sawed (3 of 4)
British Dictionary definitions for sawed (4 of 4)
Word Origin for saw
Idioms and Phrases with sawed
see old saw.