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cloverleafed

cloverleafed is the simple past and past participle of cloverleaf.

Meaning of cloverleaf

Verb

cloverleaf (third-person singular simple present cloverleafs, present participle cloverleafing, simple past and past participle cloverleafed)

  1. (intransitive) To turn by following a cloverleaf, or as if by following one.
    • Hay told a military historian that Allen precipitated “the debacle” by “allowing his lead company to pursue the VC down the trail” instead of forming a perimeter and cloverleafing at the first sign of the enemy.2003, David Maraniss, They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967

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Questions about cloverleafed

What is cloverleafed the simple past and past participle of?
Cloverleafed is the simple past and past participle of cloverleaf.

Words near cloverleafed in the dictionary

  1. cloverleaf models
  2. cloverleaf skull
  3. cloverleaf skulls
  4. cloverleaf tongue
  5. cloverleaf tongues
  6. cloverleafed
  7. cloverleafing
  8. cloverleafs
  9. cloverleaves
  10. cloverlike
  11. cloveroot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cloverleafed (page history and authors); cloverleaf (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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