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overcoated

overcoated adjective: wearing an overcoat. Also the simple past and past participle of overcoat.

Adjective

overcoated (not comparable)

  1. Wearing an overcoat.
    • He was hatted, booted, overcoated, and umbrellaed, as became a person who was about to expose himself to the night and the storm on an errand of charity[…]1892, Ambrose Bierce, The Applicant
    • These bare, unworked facts evoke a scene right out of Hemingway, the overcoated wiseguy with the heater, the boy and the cook cowering in the kitchen (Another bright boy.2007 November 18, Rich Cohen, “Wiseguys”, in New York Times

Also used as

overcoated is also the simple past and past participle of overcoat.

Origin of overcoated

From overcoat + -ed.

Questions about overcoated

What does overcoated mean?
Overcoated means wearing an overcoat.
What part of speech is overcoated?
Overcoated is an adjective.

Words near overcoated in the dictionary

  1. overcoach
  2. overcoached
  3. overcoaches
  4. overcoaching
  5. overcoat
  6. overcoated
  7. overcoating
  8. overcoatings
  9. overcoatless
  10. overcoats
  11. overcoddle

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