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tarpaulined

tarpaulined is the simple past and past participle of tarpaulin.

Meaning of tarpaulin

Verb

tarpaulin (third-person singular simple present tarpaulins, present participle tarpaulining, simple past and past participle tarpaulined)

  1. To cover with a tarpaulin.
    • "Cover it up! Don't touch it!" said the Professor. So we tarpaulined it according to his instructions, and there it lies.1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed

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Adjective

tarpaulined (not comparable)

  1. Covered with a tarpaulin.

Origin of tarpaulined

From tarpaulin + -ed.

Questions about tarpaulined

What does tarpaulined mean?
Tarpaulined means covered with a tarpaulin.
What is tarpaulined the simple past and past participle of?
Tarpaulined is the simple past and past participle of tarpaulin.
What part of speech is tarpaulined?
Tarpaulined is an adjective.

Words near tarpaulined in the dictionary

  1. tarpaper
  2. tarpapered
  3. tarpapering
  4. tarpapers
  5. tarpaulin
  6. tarpaulined
  7. tarpauling
  8. tarpaulings
  9. tarpaulining
  10. tarpaulins
  11. tarped

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tarpaulined (page history and authors); tarpaulin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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