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wode

Pronunciation: /ˈwoːd(ə)/

“wode” is a Middle English word. Its 13 meanings in English:

noun

  1. madness, insanity, an overmastering emotion, rage, fury
  2. wood (material).

verb

  1. To be or go mad; be or go out of one's mind; behave wildly; be frenzied; go out of control.
  2. to be or become furious, enraged.
  3. To hunt.
  4. To take to the woods; hide oneself in the woods (also reflexive: ben woded).

adverb

  1. frantically
  2. ferociously, fiercely
  3. intensely, furiously
  4. furiously enraged, irate, angry

adjective

  1. mad, insane, possessed, furious, frantic, mentally deranged, of unsound mind, out of one's mind.
  2. rabid
  3. wild, not tamed

Etymology

From Old English wōd, from Proto-West Germanic *wōd, from Proto-Germanic *wōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂tós.

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