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boilerplated

boilerplated is the simple past and past participle of boilerplate.

Meaning of boilerplate

Verb

boilerplate (third-person singular simple present boilerplates, present participle boilerplating, simple past and past participle boilerplated)

  1. (transitive) To store standard text so that it can easily be retrieved for reuse.
    • Any text that you have reason to use more than once can be boilerplated by simply tucking it away in a file (on disk) […]1986, Personal Computing, volume 10, page 72

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Questions about boilerplated

What is boilerplated the simple past and past participle of?
Boilerplated is the simple past and past participle of boilerplate.

Words near boilerplated in the dictionary

  1. boilerman
  2. boilermen
  3. boilerplate
  4. boilerplate code
  5. boilerplate codes
  6. boilerplated
  7. boilerplates
  8. boilerplating
  9. boilers
  10. boilersmith
  11. boilersmiths

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boilerplated (page history and authors); boilerplate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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