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bitumed

bitumed adjective: smeared or covered with bitumen.

Adjective

bitumed (comparative more bitumed, superlative most bitumed)

  1. (obsolete) Smeared or covered with bitumen.
    • Sir, we haue a Chiſt beneath the hatches, / Caulkt and bittumed ready.c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry...
    • The basket of bulrushes for the infant Moses, when thoroughly bitumed, was well adapted for the object for which it was made.1878 August 1, “Lesson LXXXVI”, in The Sabbath School Magazine, volume XXX, number viii, page 191

Forms of bitumed

comparativemore bitumed
superlativemost bitumed

Origin of bitumed

From bitume + -ed.

Questions about bitumed

What does bitumed mean?
Bitumed means smeared or covered with bitumen.
What part of speech is bitumed?
Bitumed is an adjective.

Words near bitumed in the dictionary

  1. bitucarpin
  2. bitulithic
  3. bitumastic
  4. bitumastics
  5. bitume
  6. bitumed
  7. bitumen
  8. bitumen of Judea
  9. bitumened
  10. bitumening
  11. bitumenised

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