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washboarded

washboarded is the simple past and past participle of washboard.

Meaning of washboard

Verb

washboard (third-person singular simple present washboards, present participle washboarding, simple past and past participle washboarded)

  1. To produce a rippled texture on a surface.
    • Doug came up with a half-guilty smile and washboarded his forehead at her.1967, James Jones, Go to the Widow-Maker, page 515
  2. To play a washboard.
    • It's almost as if the urge to washboard is intrinsically human.2008, The New Yorker, page 28
  3. (bees) To move up and down or back and forth across the surface of a hive, possibly to lay down a layer of propolis and wax.
    • Individual bees have been observed washboarding on the inside glass of an observation hive.2015, James E. Tew, The Beekeeper's Problem Solver, →ISBN, page 73

See all 9 meanings of washboard

Adjective

washboarded (comparative more washboarded, superlative most washboarded)

  1. Suffering from washboarding.
    • In the case of trucks, a badly “washboarded” highway tends to limit the maximum possible load which the truck's springs can carry.1928, Engineering Bulletin - Issues 25-40, page 54
    • To estimate this sap tension, a cylindrical item, having the same radius as that of the depressions on the wavy, washboarded surface, was pressed from the top into the earlywood layer of a specimen placed on the flat dynamometer, until the depth of depression produced equalled that for the...2001, New Zealand Journal of Forestry - Volumes 46-47

Forms of washboarded

comparativemore washboarded
superlativemost washboarded

Questions about washboarded

What does washboarded mean?
Washboarded means suffering from washboarding.
What is washboarded the simple past and past participle of?
Washboarded is the simple past and past participle of washboard.
What part of speech is washboarded?
Washboarded is an adjective.

Words near washboarded in the dictionary

  1. washbaskets
  2. washbin
  3. washbins
  4. washboard
  5. washboard abs
  6. washboarded
  7. washboarding
  8. washboardings
  9. washboardist
  10. washboardists
  11. washboards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: washboarded (page history and authors); washboard (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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