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silvered

silvered adjective: coated with silver, made reflective or shiny by application of metal. Also the simple past and past participle of silver.

Adjective

silvered (comparative more silvered, superlative most silvered)

  1. Coated with silver, made reflective or shiny by application of metal.
  2. Hoary with age; silver-haired.
    • Professor Malik Solanka, retired historian of ideas, irascible dollmaker, and since his recent fifty-fifth birthday celibate and solitary by his own (much criticized) choice, in his silvered years found himself living in a golden age.2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 3

Also used as

silvered is also the simple past and past participle of silver.

Forms of silvered

comparativemore silvered
superlativemost silvered

Words formed from silvered

Questions about silvered

What does silvered mean?
Silvered means coated with silver, made reflective or shiny by application of metal.
What part of speech is silvered?
Silvered is an adjective.

Words near silvered in the dictionary

  1. silverbush
  2. silverbushes
  3. silvercloth
  4. silvercraft
  5. Silverdale
  6. silvered
  7. silverer
  8. silverers
  9. silverest
  10. silvereth
  11. silvereye

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