2-Letter Words Ending in D

Past tense or past participle

Past tense or past participle

Got out of hand.

Space needed in Slough after Mothers' Union expanded

Cycle length for a gigahertz processor

Old relative returning next fast time

A very short interval of time

Necropsy

Piece of bedroom furniture

Place for a lamp, tissues, etc.

Alarm clock setting

EXPOSED expose

INSURED one who is insured

* It doesn't mean "subtracted"

Surprised and confused

Perplexed - and apparently not put on

Nonpros

Like hormones synthesized from amino acids

Made regular deals with minor criminal

Only white wine available around 11 is made as standard

Made unintelligible

Obscured or darkened, bewildered or perplexed

Beclouded

OBSOLESCE To become obsolescent.

Blocked

Provoked editor after incident

Brought about

Opsonify

Moved like a fan (wordplay)

Swung to and fro.

Moved like a pendulum

Sent to Coventry

Potential co-star dies in Coventry

Escort said to be working in Coventry

'Ground Zero' cast I'd banished

Excluded from society

Socially spurned

Outbless

Outblush

Outboast

Surpassed in quality

Beaten in quality

Beaten on quality

Outcross

Outdress

Outfeast

Outgross

Outguess

OUTHUSTLE

OUTMUSCLE

Outpress

Outsavor

OUTSCHEME

Outscold

Outscoop

Outscorn

Outshout

Outslick

Thought over (wordplay)

Got the better of

Unharnessed horse from a vehicle

Outspeed

Outspell

Outstart

Outsteer

Outstudy

Outstunt

Overcast

Overfish

ISSUED issue

Went beyond

Oversalt

SAUCED sauce

SCALED scale

Overseed

SMOKED smoke

Oversoak

Pall, perhaps

Dish out more work than can be completed

Cover a surface

Blew out of proportion

Made too much of

Exaggerated

Wore out one's welcome

Outlasted one's welcome

Wore out, as one's welcome

Oversuds

Oversup

Overtask

Oviposit

PALLETISE

In some common women's office attire

Like fleas and ticks

PASSIVATE

Paper-towel tube material

Business-card paper stock

Defeat those running the company? Just the ticket!

Went regularly but aspired not to change

Was customer treated scornfully (wordplay)

Frequented

Pedestal

PELLETISE

Persistently harassed

Tormented

Kept at it, no matter what

A golfer, once embarrassed, struggled on

Carried on with exercises - runs cut

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

""The state or condition of being a person, especially having those qualities that confer distinct individuality: "finding her own personhood as a campus activist" (Walter Shapiro).""

Phantasy

Endoscopic shot in very little time

Short time

Pigstick

Plaister

Oops! Now I must be off, having lobbied erratically for 5's book

Put in proper place.

Put in place

Put one by one in pots I'd prepared

Postform

Cancelled in a way

Postsync

Order to breeder coming round after time assumed

Assumed (something) as the basis for reasoning

Suggested all the letters from university disposed of by department

""POUSSETTE A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.""

Prebless

CREASED crease

Lived before

Prefocus

Prescind

Wrote an Rx for

Dictated before writer died

""A kind of highly sized rag paper or board, sometimes containing a small admixture of wood pulp; -- so called because used originally, as now, in presses for pressing and finishing knit underwear.""

Imprinted beforehand.

White-collar profession (wordplay)

Ministers hoped riots had dispersed

Group of fathers

A polyhedron all of whose vertices lie in one of two parallel planes.

PRIVATISE

Took steps

Covered ground

Got somewhere

Was nosy about work he has told about in advance

A cytoplasmic organelle from which a plastid develops.

Abridged Plain Words copy editor outlawed

Forbidden

Tried to find passage of writing on charming daughter

""PROSELYTE A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. proselyte.""

Looked for something to claim

French author not superior, chided and laid low

PUBLICISE

PULVERISE

""Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustular; pustulous; as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.""

Had one's doubts

After pursuit I had one held to be examined

Had reservations about inquiry from writer

Rainwash

Reabsorb

Jude's trade (anagram)

Set to rights again.

In the book, see, it's only the editor that's been changed again

Rearrest

How the hidden scare finished and was once more on the up and up

Reassail

In the matter of the silly one 'er Edward made another claim

Like much real estate, annually

Evaluated again

Evaluated anew

Transferred to a different job

Received orders

Transferred to another department, perhaps

Distributed differently.

Acknowledged God, sincere in action

Accepted foreign coins with greed

Showed appreciation for creation of co-designer

COMPOSED compose

Planned afresh

Planned differently, having abandoned position about England's borders

Processed again, as cud

DISPOSED dispose

REDSHIFT a displacement of the spectrum of a celestial body

Like a college athlete kept from games in order to develop skills

Postponed athletic eligibility to work on improving skills

Signed on for another hitch

Signed up anew

Said yes to another tour

Clicked again, as a seat belt

Refinish

Refocus

Made new growth, perhaps

Recorded; expressed (an opinion)

Like legal voters

On the rolls

Paid back for expenses

Paid back

IMMERSED immerse

Put back in a slot

Tried the coin again

Placed into again

INSPIRED inspire

Returned to one's seat (wordplay)

Put back in check, say, by daughter

Control said to be restored

Put back in the market

The way one controlled the horse around the underclothing

LICENSED license

Crisper, perhaps

Teacher splitting grass changed his tune

Like some old albums

Made doubly sure before cutting

Checked before cutting

Double-checked before cutting

Savored the past

Indulged in nostalgia

English motors caught in stop sign recollected

OBSERVED observe

Repolish

Sub-sublet (wordplay)

Reschool

Rescreen

Resculpt

Investigated systematically

Investigated thoroughly

Reseason

SERVICED service

Made roof repairs

SHUFFLED shuffle

Resilver

Resinify

Resketch

Resmooth

Resolder

Resprout

Restitch

Gave a refund

Restored to a better condition

Prepared a sub (wordplay)

Nap, then shower - editor's calm!

Showered after snooze to get sober

Emphasized anew

Emphasized again

Limited in scope

Trot round tough quarter in secret

Bound to give others credit for reform

Resummon

Resupply

Sea-sport star wearing red emerged from water again

Resurvey

Stayed in the country

Countryman had daughter for dinner, got sent down

... dictates changes after their game suspended

Furnished with little sacs.

Given up for the greater good

Acted unselfishly

Gave up

SADDLE to put a leather seat for a rider on a horse

SAILPLANE

Consecrated

Being converted, dies in fact as a saint (wordplay)

Holy.

Permitted or penalized

Imposed punishment of a kind that's permitted

Permissible

Clog material (wordplay)

Huarache material (wordplay)

Tree used for making footwear (wordplay)

Played down, say

Used crude force

Obstructed, outmanoeuvred

Inserted between.

Was hidden plastic, encasing canine opening, like a filling (wordplay)

Converted (a fat) into soap

Scabbard

(Of a building) encased for repairs in a temporary framework

Scandal

SCIENTIZE

Conductor's stand (wordplay)

Jazz performance display (wordplay)

Ball park feature.

""Of or belonging to the suborder Scorpaenoidei, which includes the scorpion fishes and rockfishes.""

Scouther

The movie industry; Hollywood.

""SCRIMMAGE Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle.""

Scrootch

SCRUMMAGE See Scrimmage. Scrimmage.

With fine and regular features, son grew to assume power

Carved

Chiseled

Not new - part of watch!

Watch! It goes around (wordplay)

Used to be found on watch (wordplay)

Deposited into a bank

Thus kept a part as one

Gets agreed damages set aside

Gets agreed alternative set aside

""SEMAPHORE A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.""

FITTED fit

Half liquid; semifluid.

SACRED consecrated or holy