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felted

felted is the simple past and past participle of felt.

Adjective

felted (not comparable)

  1. Covered with (a specified kind of) felt.
    • Corrugated-steel ceilings, a dozen blue-felted pool tables and DJ house music Thursday to Saturday.2007, Danny Palmerlee, South America on a Shoestring, page 66
  2. Having interlocked hairs to the extent of being matted.

Meaning of felt

Verb

felt (third-person singular simple present felts, present participle felting, simple past and past participle felted)

  1. (transitive) To make into felt or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
    • the same Wool , for instance , one Men felts it into a Hat, another weaves it into Cloth , another weaves it into Kersey or Sergea. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […]...
  2. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, felt.
    • to felt the cylinder of a steam engine
  3. (transitive) To cause (a player) to lose all their chips.
  4. (Internet, broadly, transitive) To thoroughly defeat or humiliate (someone).

See all 10 meanings of felt

Words formed from felted

Questions about felted

What does felted mean?
Felted means covered with (a specified kind of) felt.
What is felted the simple past and past participle of?
Felted is the simple past and past participle of felt.
What part of speech is felted?
Felted is an adjective.

Words near felted in the dictionary

  1. feltch
  2. feltched
  3. feltches
  4. feltching
  5. felte
  6. felted
  7. Felten
  8. Feltens
  9. felter
  10. feltered
  11. feltering

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