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pinnacled

pinnacled is the simple past and past participle of pinnacle.

Meaning of pinnacle

Verb

pinnacle (third-person singular simple present pinnacles, present participle pinnacling, simple past and past participle pinnacled)

  1. (transitive) To place on a pinnacle.
    • And down this vast gulf upon which we were pinnacled the great draught dashed and roared, driving clouds and misty wreaths of vapour before it, till we were nearly blinded, and utterly confused.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
  2. (transitive) To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.
    • The pediment of the Southern Transept is pinnacled, not inelegantly, with a flourished cross1782, Thomas Warton, The History and Antiquities of Kiddington

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Adjective

pinnacled (not comparable)

  1. Having one or more pinnacles.
    • Close to this monument is another, the stateliest and most sumptuous of the three; it first arrests the eye of the stranger, and long detains it, — a many-pinnacled pile, surrounded by niches with statues of the warrior saints.1853, John Ruskin, “Roman Renaissance”, in The Stones of Venice, volume III (The Fall), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § LVI, page 73
    • Photography from the bluff side would accentuate the twin-pinnacled crest but sacrifice part of the background.1978, Missouri. Division of Geology and Land Survey, Educational Series - Division of Geology and Land Survey

Questions about pinnacled

What does pinnacled mean?
Pinnacled means having one or more pinnacles.
What is pinnacled the simple past and past participle of?
Pinnacled is the simple past and past participle of pinnacle.
What part of speech is pinnacled?
Pinnacled is an adjective.

Words near pinnacled in the dictionary

  1. pinnace
  2. pinnaces
  3. pinnacle
  4. Pinnacle Islands
  5. Pinnacle Swamp
  6. pinnacled
  7. pinnacles
  8. pinnaclet
  9. pinnaclets
  10. pinnacling
  11. pinnacular

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