envied

• envyed (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛnvid/

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envied

1. simple past and past participle of envy

envied (comparative more envied, superlative most envied)

1. That is the object of envy.
   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 185:

     She, seated between her aunt and Mr. Civil (now retired from the ministry on a pension), listening to the wind (for it was autumn) howling vengefully round the porch; while this envied, bedight girl eating her manifold chocolate gifts, would merrily go forth to further triumphs, laughing at the clown, so philosophically funny, despite the cruel ringmaster's whip cuts.

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvaɪd/

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• Rhymes: -aɪd

envied

1. simple past and past participle of envie

• Devine, devein, endive, veined