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shored

shored adjective: having a shore, often one of a specified type. Also the past participle of shore.

Adjective

shored (not comparable)

  1. Having a shore, often one of a specified type.
    • the rocky-shored straits, a sandy-shored cove

Also used as

shored is also the past participle of shore.

Origin of shored

From shore (“coast”) + -ed.

See shore (verb).

Words formed from shored

Phrases with shored

Questions about shored

What does shored mean?
Shored means having a shore, often one of a specified type.
What part of speech is shored?
Shored is an adjective.

Words near shored in the dictionary

  1. shorebound
  2. shorebreak
  3. shorebreaks
  4. shorecrab
  5. shorecrabs
  6. shored
  7. shored up
  8. Shoreditch
  9. shoreface
  10. shorefaces
  11. shorefast

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