sized

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English

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Etymology

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From size +‎ -ed.

Adjective

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sized (not comparable)

  1. Having a certain size. Usually used in combination with an adverb or a noun.
    A badly-sized pair of shoes.
    A pea-sized creature.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      The preposterous altruism too! [] Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
    • 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
      An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.

Hyponyms

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Verb

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sized

  1. simple past and past participle of size

See also

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