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caverned

caverned adjective: pitted or hollowed out with caverns.

Adjective

caverned (comparative more caverned, superlative most caverned)

  1. (poetic) Pitted or hollowed out with caverns.
    • The wolves yelled on the caverned hill
      Where echo tolled in thunder still;1815, Lord Byron, The Siege of Corinth, XXXIII, lines 1022-1023
  2. Living in a cavern.
    • No Bandit fierce, no Tyrant mad with pride, / No cavern'd Hermit, reſt ſelf-ſatisfy'd; / Who moſt to ſhun or hate mankind pretend, / Seek an Admirer, or wou'd fix a Friend.1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC, page 63, lines 39–42
    • […] he will heed as little the lofty generous enterprises that kindle upon the moral world, as a caverned bear the luminous expanse of the glittering heaven.1828, Walter Colton, Remarks on Duelling, New York: Leavitt, page 40

Forms of caverned

comparativemore caverned
superlativemost caverned

Origin of caverned

From cavern + -ed.

Questions about caverned

What does caverned mean?
Caverned means pitted or hollowed out with caverns.
What part of speech is caverned?
Caverned is an adjective.

Words near caverned in the dictionary

  1. caver
  2. Caverly
  3. Caverlys
  4. cavern
  5. cavernal
  6. caverned
  7. cavernful
  8. cavernfuls
  9. cavernicole
  10. cavernicoles
  11. cavernicolous

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