guttered

Verb

gutter (third-person singular simple present gutters, present participle guttering, simple past and past participle guttered)

1. To flow or stream; to form gutters.
2. To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.

   Synonyms:

   cloam

3. (or poetically) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
   • The light in his eyes guttered like a candle in a mighty wind and finally went out. She had no time to grieve[…]2020 November 16, Emma Castle, Devastate Me: A Next-door Neighbor Romance, Lauren Smith, →ISBN
4. (transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
5. (transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.
   • A narrow flooring, guttered, walled, and tiled.1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
6. (transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
   • The gutter'd-Rockes, and Congregated Sands,c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

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