grouted

Verb

grout (third-person singular simple present grouts, present participle grouting, simple past and past participle grouted)

1. (transitive) To insert mortar between tiles.
   • I spent the whole afternoon grouting the kitchen floor.
2. (transitive) To affix with mortar.
   • The year before the pandemic, a sump tank attached to a waste pond sprang a leak and had to be grouted shut.December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian

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