graveled
English
Verb
graveled
- simple past tense and past participle of gravel
Adjective
graveled
- Covered with gravel.
- 2006 May 5, Harold Henderson, “Snips”, in Chicago Reader:
- The soldiers admitted that while they had the money to lay gravel on a particular road, they lacked the funds to pave it, even though all agreed that graveled roads offered easy concealment for IEDs.
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- Perplexed, puzzled, baffled; troubled, annoyed.
- 1894, Anthony Hope, Dolly Dialogues:
- "The fracture is your making; the pin--" Here Miss Dolly interrupted; to tell the truth I was not sorry, for I was fairly graveled for the meaning of the pin.
- 1919, Christopher Darlington Morley, Mince Pie:
- 'Oh, yes,' says Jan. Pond was graveled; didn't know just what to do.
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Anagrams
- glavered