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concreted

  1. simple past and past participle of concrete

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concreted (comparative more concreted, superlative most concreted)

  1. Covered in or surrounded by concrete.
    • 2016 August 26, Jonathan Griffin, “Interview: on the road with the US artist Sterling Ruby”, in Financial Times[1], London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 February 2022:
      In 2009, Ruby moved to a much bigger studio complex in Vernon, further south, across the concreted LA River. Last year, Ruby expanded into even bigger premises in the area — 110,000 sq feet of studio space on a four-acre plot.
    • 2020 September 10, Jeff Sparrow, “Undraining the swamp: how rewilders have reclaimed golf courses and waterways”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-22:
      For Gio Fitzpatrick, the project represents the culmination of an old dream. As a 15-year-old exploring St Kilda's Elster Creek – once central to a coastal marsh ecosystem but since reduced to a concreted canal – he stumbled upon a flock of eastern rosellas, a species of birds thought long vanished from the area.
  2. (obsolete) Solidified.
    • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: [], London: [] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, [], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 49:
      Hereof the common opinion hath been, and ſtill remaineth amongſt us, that Cryſtall is nothing elſe, but Ice or Snow concreted, and by duration of time, congealed beyond liquation.

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