caverned

caverned

English

Etymology

cavern +‎ -ed

Adjective

caverned (comparative more caverned, superlative most caverned)

1. (poetic) Pitted or hollowed out with caverns.
   • 1815 Lord Byron, The Siege of Corinth, XXXIII, lines 1022-1023,

     The wolves yelled on the caverned hill

     Where echo tolled in thunder still;

2. Living in a cavern.
   • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle 4, London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], OCLC 960856019, lines 39–42, page 63:

     No Bandit fierce, no Tyrant mad with pride, / No cavern'd Hermit, reſt ſelf-ſatisfy'd; / Who moſt to ſhun or hate mankind pretend, / Seek an Admirer, or wou'd fix a Friend.

   • 1828, Walter Colton, Remarks on Duelling, New York: Leavitt, p. 40,

     […] he will heed as little the lofty generous enterprises that kindle upon the moral world, as a caverned bear the luminous expanse of the glittering heaven.

Anagrams

• Cavender, cravened