sanded
sanded is the simple past and past participle of sand.
Adjective
sanded (not comparable)
- Having been smoothed through any process.
- Covered with sand.
- Your funeral wreath shall be your mother's tears,
Your tomb the sanded waste of foreign shores.1958, Ovid, The Metamorphoses, translated by Horace Gregory, New York: Viking, Book XIII, p. 370 - The fishes in your imagination were flesh pink, medium sized like dab, and the loaves were white like altar breads, only fatter and spongier. The place where the miracle occurred was green and leafy and not at all the sparse sanded land that you were later to see.1976, Edna O'Brien, chapter 3, in Mother Ireland, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 66
- Your funeral wreath shall be your mother's tears,
Meaning of sand
Verb
sand (third-person singular simple present sands, present participle sanding, simple past and past participle sanded)
- To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.
- To cover with sand.
- Sudden stopping, which could be effected easily by sanding the rails and reversing the driving-gear, was dangerous, because the train might telescope and overwhelm the engine.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 141
- To blot ink using sand.
- The officer wrote until he had finished, read over to himself what he had written, sanded it, and handed it to Defarge, with the words "In secret."1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Words formed from sanded
Phrases with sanded
Questions about sanded
- What does sanded mean?
- Sanded means having been smoothed through any process.
- What is sanded the simple past and past participle of?
- Sanded is the simple past and past participle of sand.
- What part of speech is sanded?
- Sanded is an adjective.
Words near sanded in the dictionary
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