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vaulted

vaulted is the simple past and past participle of vault.

Meaning of vault

Verb (1)

vault (third-person singular simple present vaults, present participle vaulting, simple past and past participle vaulted)

  1. (transitive) To build as, or cover with a vault.
    • The shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley.1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London...
  2. (transitive) To store in a vault.
  3. To remove (an item, character, etc.) from a video game in an update.
    • In future updates, most likely in season six, more items will get vaulted.2018 August 31, Steven Asarch, “'Fortnite' Developer Update 5.40: Storm Destruction, Revolver in Vault”, in Newsweek, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek Publishing LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original...

Verb (2)

vault (third-person singular simple present vaults, present participle vaulting, simple past and past participle vaulted)

  1. (ambitransitive) To jump or leap over with a hand and/or foot on the item for support.
    • The fugitive vaulted over the fence to escape.

See all 22 meanings of vault

Adjective

vaulted (comparative more vaulted, superlative most vaulted)

  1. Of a ceiling supported by arches, introduced in the Gothic style.
    • It was a large vaulted apartment, and had been once a chapel: but it was now half library, half laboratory.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Age and Youth”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 10

Forms of vaulted

comparativemore vaulted
superlativemost vaulted

Words formed from vaulted

Questions about vaulted

What does vaulted mean?
Vaulted means of a ceiling supported by arches, introduced in the Gothic style.
What is vaulted the simple past and past participle of?
Vaulted is the simple past and past participle of vault.
What part of speech is vaulted?
Vaulted is an adjective.

Words near vaulted in the dictionary

  1. vault-like
  2. vault-worthy
  3. vaultable
  4. vaultage
  5. vaultages
  6. vaulted
  7. vaultedly
  8. vaulter
  9. vaulters
  10. vaultest
  11. vaulteth

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