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ivied

/ˈaɪviːd/

ivied adjective: overgrown with ivy or another climbing plant.

Adjective

ivied (comparative more ivied, superlative most ivied)

  1. Overgrown with ivy or another climbing plant.
    • […] Lancelot Carnaby stopped from his rash venture into the water, and drew himself back into an ivied bush, which served as the finial of the little garden-hedge.1880, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, “Battery and Assumpsit”, in Mary Anerley. A Yorkshire Tale. […], volume III, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 33
    • But he was broodingly unable to see even the most ivied tower as anything but a pile of stones till, inexplicably, the miracle of recovered hope and courage transformed him.1951, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 4, in World so Wide […], New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, page 35
    Antonyms:
    univied

Examples of ivied in a sentence

  • Even a place as innocent and unsqualid as the ivied Wesleyan University in Connecticut provokes contempt[…]1987, Eugene Goodheart, Pieces of Resistance, page 188:
  • […] great glossy-leaved mango trees ivied with pepper vines […]1988, Nadine Gordimer, The Essential Gesture, New York: Knopf, pages 195–196:

Antonyms of ivied

Forms of ivied

comparativemore ivied
superlativemost ivied

Origin of ivied

From ivy + -ed.

Questions about ivied

What does ivied mean?
Ivied means overgrown with ivy or another climbing plant.
How do you use ivied in a sentence?
Even a place as innocent and unsqualid as the ivied Wesleyan University in Connecticut provokes contempt[…]
What part of speech is ivied?
Ivied is an adjective.
How do you pronounce ivied?
Ivied is pronounced /ˈaɪviːd/.

Words near ivied in the dictionary

  1. IVG
  2. IVGs
  3. IVH
  4. IVI
  5. Ivie
  6. ivied
  7. ivies
  8. IVIG
  9. ivigtite
  10. Ivill
  11. Ivinghoe

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