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roadkilled

roadkilled adjective: killed by a road vehicle (used of animals).

Adjective

roadkilled (not comparable)

  1. Killed by a road vehicle (used of animals).
    • In most parts of the United States, only about one out of five roadkilled deer will be an antlered buck . . . and by the next day, it will still be a dead buck, but it won't still be antlered if someone else has beaten you to it.2005, Dennis Walrod, Antlers: a guide to collecting, scoring, mounting, and carving

Origin of roadkilled

From road + killed.

Questions about roadkilled

What does roadkilled mean?
Roadkilled means killed by a road vehicle (used of animals).
What part of speech is roadkilled?
Roadkilled is an adjective.

Words near roadkilled in the dictionary

  1. roadie
  2. roadies
  3. roading
  4. roadish
  5. roadkill
  6. roadkilled
  7. roadkills
  8. roadless
  9. roadlessness
  10. roadlet
  11. roadlets

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