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keyholed

keyholed is the simple past and past participle of keyhole.

Meaning of keyhole

Verb

keyhole (third-person singular simple present keyholes, present participle keyholing, simple past and past participle keyholed)

  1. To strike a target after wobbling in flight so that the long axis of the bullet does not follow the line of flight, typically due to insufficient spin resulting from the rifling in the barrel.

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Questions about keyholed

What is keyholed the simple past and past participle of?
Keyholed is the simple past and past participle of keyhole.

Words near keyholed in the dictionary

  1. keyhole surgery
  2. keyhole urchin
  3. keyhole urchins
  4. keyhole wound
  5. keyhole wounds
  6. keyholed
  7. keyholes
  8. keyholing
  9. Keyhuvadhoo
  10. Keyi Panyor
  11. keying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: keyholed (page history and authors); keyhole (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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