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clifted

clifted adjective: broken; fissured.

Adjective

clifted (comparative more clifted, superlative most clifted)

  1. (obsolete) broken; fissured
  2. Having cliffs.
    • she had got to a safe distance from the clifted shore1835, Gerald Griffin, Tales of my neighbourhood
    • Climb the Andes' clifted side.1812, Robert Chapman, The picture of Glasgow

Forms of clifted

comparativemore clifted
superlativemost clifted

Origin of clifted

From clift + -ed, from clift (“a cleft”).

Questions about clifted

What does clifted mean?
Clifted means broken; fissured.
What part of speech is clifted?
Clifted is an adjective.

Words near clifted in the dictionary

  1. CliffsNotes versions
  2. clifftop
  3. clifftops
  4. cliffy
  5. clift
  6. clifted
  7. Clifteen
  8. Cliftleigh
  9. Clifton
  10. Clifton and Compton
  11. Clifton Beach

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