matted
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matted
- simple past and past participle of mat
Adjective edit
matted (comparative more matted, superlative most matted)
- Forming a thick tangled mess.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:
- The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver—over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple […]
- Covered with mats or matting.
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
- The servant led us down a matted passage and showed us at the end into a great library […]
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forming a thick tangled mess
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covered with mats or matting
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