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It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn't admit to yourself that it did.
Leslie Jamison

Meaning of "nagged" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF NAGGED

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NAGGED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Nagged is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb nagged in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO NAGGED

PRESENT

Present
I nag
you nag
he/she/it nags
we nag
you nag
they nag
Present continuous
I am nagging
you are nagging
he/she/it is nagging
we are nagging
you are nagging
they are nagging
Present perfect
I have nagged
you have nagged
he/she/it has nagged
we have nagged
you have nagged
they have nagged
Present perfect continuous
I have been nagging
you have been nagging
he/she/it has been nagging
we have been nagging
you have been nagging
they have been nagging
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I nagged
you nagged
he/she/it nagged
we nagged
you nagged
they nagged
Past continuous
I was nagging
you were nagging
he/she/it was nagging
we were nagging
you were nagging
they were nagging
Past perfect
I had nagged
you had nagged
he/she/it had nagged
we had nagged
you had nagged
they had nagged
Past perfect continuous
I had been nagging
you had been nagging
he/she/it had been nagging
we had been nagging
you had been nagging
they had been nagging
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will nag
you will nag
he/she/it will nag
we will nag
you will nag
they will nag
Future continuous
I will be nagging
you will be nagging
he/she/it will be nagging
we will be nagging
you will be nagging
they will be nagging
Future perfect
I will have nagged
you will have nagged
he/she/it will have nagged
we will have nagged
you will have nagged
they will have nagged
Future perfect continuous
I will have been nagging
you will have been nagging
he/she/it will have been nagging
we will have been nagging
you will have been nagging
they will have been nagging
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would nagged
you would nagged
he/she/it would nagged
we would nagged
you would nagged
they would nagged
Conditional continuous
I would be nagging
you would be nagging
he/she/it would be nagging
we would be nagging
you would be nagging
they would be nagging
Conditional perfect
I would have nagged
you would have nagged
he/she/it would have nagged
we would have nagged
you would have nagged
they would have nagged
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been nagging
you would have been nagging
he/she/it would have been nagging
we would have been nagging
you would have been nagging
they would have been nagging
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you nag
we let´s nag
you nag
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to nag
Past participle
nagged
Present Participle
nagging
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE NAGGED

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bragged
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zigzagged

Synonyms and antonyms of nagged in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «NAGGED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «nagged» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of nagged

Translation of «nagged» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NAGGED

Find out the translation of nagged to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of nagged from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «nagged» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

喋喋不休
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

nagged
570 millions of speakers

English

nagged
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

nagged
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مزعجة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

грызла
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

incomodava
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

nagged
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

agacé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Merengek
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

nagged
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

nagged
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

잔소리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nagged
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cằn nhằn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

nagged
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नॅग्ड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

nagged
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tormentava
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nagged
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гризла
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nagged
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

nagged
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

neul
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

omskakad
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

maste
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nagged

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NAGGED»

The term «nagged» is normally little used and occupies the 116.116 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NAGGED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about nagged

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2 QUOTES WITH «NAGGED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word nagged.
1
Leslie Jamison
It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn't admit to yourself that it did.
2
Denise Van Outen
Men pretend they don't like to be nagged, but they love it, really. It makes them feel wanted.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NAGGED»

Discover the use of nagged in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nagged and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Superior Wife Syndrome: Why Women Do Everything So Well ...
Men get nagged about “every thang,” as a twenty-seven-year-old car de- tailer from Alabama writes. To include a truly comprehensive list of marital nags would be impossible, since the varieties are as myriad as grains of pollen on a spring ...
Carin Rubenstein, 2009
2
Ethics and the Profession of Anthropology: Dialogue for ...
Nagged by NAGPRA Is There an Archaeological Ethic? E. PIERRE MORENON Using a method, That you couldn't have known then, I can stir up memory in countless elements. Traces of blood are forever. Lies shine. Secret codes resound.
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, 2003
3
Divorce Recovery: Nagged, Tagged and Bagged
Churchouse explains how to go through the recovery stages following a divorcein order to create the best part of one's life.
Keith G. Churchouse, 2011
4
Arthur Phillip: Australia's First Governor
Phillip did, and he nagged and nagged and nagged at the Home Office on the subject – and nagged and nagged and nagged the Admiralty about the unpreparedness of the marines and of the seamen. The fact that it got him nowhere – the ...
Derek Parker, 2011
5
Automated Deduction, Cade-12.: 12th International Conference ...
More sophisticated heuristic selection criteria for picking nagged subproblems have also been shown to result in improved performance. In addition, there are many opportunities to make more effective use of the information obtained during a ...
Alan Bundy, 1994
6
The History of Oeuf
she said, and then she started to nag: she nagged the generals and the admirals; she nagged the soldiers and the sailors; ... the peasants on the farms and the knitters in the knitting-communes; she even nagged Captain Villainous Bounder.
P.s.e.
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Intrusive Partners - Elusive Mates: The Pursuer-Distancer ...
(1967) described a couple's inability to punctuate the sequence of events by depicting a nag–withdraw dynamic in which the wife nagged and the husband withdrew. The more the wife nagged, the more the husband withdrew and vice versa.
Stephen J. Betchen, 2013
8
Asperger Syndrome and Bullying: Strategies and Solutions
Inagged you to join a social group for teens at our temple. I nagged you to call people to play tennis. I nagged you to attend school dances. I nagged you to ask someone to go to the movies. The more I nagged, the angrier you would get at me.
Nick Dubin, 2007
9
Drama, Psychotherapy and Psychosis: Dramatherapy and ...
He's nagged me out of my mind. He's picked and picked and picked. He's lovely and l love him but he's a nuisance, (laughs) . . . (I've been with him for 20 years. People have seen the way he is. l knew l couldn't stand being nagged at.
John Casson, 2004
10
The Lost Art of the Good Schmooze: Building Rapport and ...
Power emanates from style differences, in her view. We must wonder which comes first—the style or the power. One male consultant reflected on this issue in talking about his former partner's nagging: She nagged me because she was weak.
Diana Boxer, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NAGGED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term nagged is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Apple loyalists taking time to buy a new Apple Watch
It nagged the physically active New Yorker to stand up during a six-hour flight. "Apple is famous for telling us what we need before we need ... «Albany Times Union, Jul 15»
2
Even Apple loyalists taking their time on Apple Watch
It nagged the physically active New Yorker to stand up during a six-hour flight. "Apple is famous for telling us what we need before we need ... «The Olympian, Jul 15»
3
Toronto FC's Jozy Altidore, Sunderland's Jermain Defoe come face …
Meanwhile, Defoe started brightly with TFC and logged more goals (11 in 2014), but he was nagged by a groin injury throughout his brief spell ... «MLSsoccer.com, Jul 15»
4
​For many consumers, Apple Watch isn't a gotta have
It nagged the physically active New Yorker to stand up during a six-hour flight. "Apple is famous for telling us what we need before we need ... «CBS News, Jul 15»
5
[From The Archives] Cheryl Strauss Einhorn 1994 Article On …
One of the most often cited is the clash between Lehman's traders and its investment bankers, a rift that nagged the firm during its decade under ... «ValueWalk, Jul 15»
6
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Snyder returned to the field, June 17, for the first time since May 10 after being nagged with an injury. In his return, he went 1-for-3 for the ... «WTOK, Jul 15»
7
Mom of 3: Why I'm a Better Parent When Stoned
“He's recovering from a recurrence now, and being nagged to refill a bowl of crackers for 12 minutes can be more stressful than being told to ... «Yahoo Parenting, Jul 15»
8
Your Guide to Effective Teaching. In TIME Magazine.
Have you ever accomplished your best work because someone nagged you? I didn't think so. Here's what to do: Stop Bribing; Make Them Feel ... «Education Week, Jul 15»
9
More than 4400 RSVP for John Kasich campaign announcement
As his big day drew near, Kasich was nagged by more calls on Monday for the ouster of his state school superintendent because of data ... «Columbus Dispatch, Jul 15»
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Washington County farm boy comes home to do his (heavenly …
Yet the idea of priesthood nagged at the young Oregonian. Finally, after coming back to Washington County to teach middle school math, ... «OregonLive.com, Jul 15»

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