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letterboxed

letterboxed is the simple past and past participle of letterbox.

Meaning of letterbox

Verb

letterbox (third-person singular simple present letterboxes, present participle letterboxing, simple past and past participle letterboxed)

  1. (transitive) To transfer a widescreen motion picture to home video formats while preserving the original aspect ratio, with the placing of black bars above and below the picture area.
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To hunt for letterboxes (containers with logbook and rubber stamp) by following clues.

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Questions about letterboxed

What is letterboxed the simple past and past participle of?
Letterboxed is the simple past and past participle of letterbox.

Words near letterboxed in the dictionary

  1. letterbox
  2. letterbox companies
  3. letterbox company
  4. letterbox contact
  5. letterbox format
  6. letterboxed
  7. letterboxer
  8. letterboxers
  9. letterboxes
  10. letterboxing
  11. letterboxy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: letterboxed (page history and authors); letterbox (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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