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wheeled

/wiːld/

wheeled is the simple past and past participle of wheel.

Adjective

wheeled (comparative more wheeled, superlative most wheeled)

  1. Having wheels; on wheels.
    • a wheeled vehicle
    • An occasional Afghan makes a good bushman. These rare birds, with the help of natives, found that by winding in and out over the soft ground of the valleys they could bring a camel-train where no wheeled transport could go.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 86
  2. (in-compounds) Having the specified number or type of wheels.
    • a three-wheeled car
    • an iron-wheeled chariot

Meaning of wheel

Verb

wheel (third-person singular simple present wheels, present participle wheeling, simple past and past participle wheeled)

  1. (transitive) To roll along on wheels.
    • Wheel that trolley over here, would you?
  2. (transitive) To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
    • The patient was wheeled out of the ER.
  3. (dated, intransitive) To ride a bicycle or tricycle.
  4. (intransitive) To make a circular movement.
    • My arms wheeled frantically in the air as I tried to signal for help.
  5. (intransitive) To move smoothly and easily, as if on wheels.
    • I wheeled through the gathering, making all my appointed stops.
  6. (intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
    • Your daughter, if you have not given her leave,
      I say again, hath made a gross revolt;
      Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes
      In an extravagant and wheeling stranger
      Of here and every where.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

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Forms of wheeled

comparativemore wheeled
superlativemost wheeled

Phrases with wheeled

Words that rhyme with wheeled

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Questions about wheeled

What does wheeled mean?
Wheeled means having wheels; on wheels.
What is wheeled the simple past and past participle of?
Wheeled is the simple past and past participle of wheel.
What part of speech is wheeled?
Wheeled is an adjective.
How do you pronounce wheeled?
Wheeled is pronounced /wiːld/.

Words near wheeled in the dictionary

  1. wheelchairs
  2. wheelclamping
  3. wheelcraft
  4. Wheeldon
  5. Wheeldons
  6. wheeled
  7. wheeled about
  8. wheeled and dealed
  9. wheeled and dealt
  10. wheeled around
  11. wheeled away

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wheeled (page history and authors); wheel (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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