Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

graveled en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Covered with gravel.
    • 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. 2006 May 5, Harold Henderson, “Snips”, in Chicago Reader:
  2. Perplexed, puzzled, baffled; troubled, annoyed.
    • 'Oh, yes,' says Jan. Pond was graveled; didn't know just what to do. 1919, Christopher Darlington Morley, Mince Pie:
    • "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. 1894, Anthony Hope, Dolly Dialogues:

Deriveds

ungraveled

graveled en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of gravel
    form of gravel