dyed

• IPA^(key): /daɪd/
• Rhymes: -aɪd
• Homophone: died

dyed

1. simple past and past participle of dye
2. Obsolete spelling of died.
   • 1651, William Bradford, The names of those which came over first, in the year 1620, and were (by the blessing of God) the first beginners, and (in a sort) the foundation, of all the plantations, and Colonies, in New England (And their families).:

     Thomas Tinker, and his wife and sone, all dyed in the first sicknes.

dyed (comparative more dyed, superlative most dyed)

1. Coloured or tinted with dye, or as though therewith.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 6:

     Gon. That our Garments being (as they were) drencht in the Sea, hold notwithſtanding their freſhneſſe and gloſſes, being rather new dy'de then ſtain'd with ſalte water.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Ezekiel 23:15:

     Girded with girdles vpon their loynes, exceeding in dyed attire vpon their heads, all of them princes to looke to, after the maner of the Babylonians of Caldea, the land of their natiuitie:

• Eddy, dyde, eddy