matted

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Verb

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matted

  1. simple past and past participle of mat

Adjective

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matted (comparative more matted, superlative most matted)

  1. Forming a thick tangled mess.
    • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, [], →OCLC, part I:
      The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver—over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple []
  2. Covered with mats or matting.

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