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pillowed

pillowed adjective: with a pillow or pillows. Also the simple past and past participle of pillow.

Adjective

pillowed (not comparable)

  1. With a pillow or pillows.
    • Day by day, those who watched unremittingly by the bed-side, by the sofa, by the pillowed chair, saw hope recede farther and farther from them.1860, W[illiam] Winwood Reade, “The Relapse”, in Liberty Hall, Oxon. […], volume III, London: Charles J[oseph] Skeet, […], pages 316–317
    • The grazes on his back redressed, he allowed Sean and the nurse to ease him back against the pillowed bed rest.2017 September 19, Dee Jones, chapter 78, in The Cup Bearer, book 1 (Escape), Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, Sunday 7ᵗʰ April 1996

Also used as

pillowed is also the simple past and past participle of pillow.

Origin of pillowed

From pillow + -ed.

Words formed from pillowed

Questions about pillowed

What does pillowed mean?
Pillowed means with a pillow or pillows.
What part of speech is pillowed?
Pillowed is an adjective.

Words near pillowed in the dictionary

  1. pillowbiters
  2. pillowbook
  3. pillowbooks
  4. pillowcase
  5. pillowcases
  6. pillowed
  7. Pillowell
  8. pillowest
  9. pilloweth
  10. pillowful
  11. pillowfuls

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