bedded

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of bed. Use this form for an action that already happened.

   The gardeners bedded the young plants before the rain came.

   Each pipe was bedded firmly in sand to stop it from shifting.

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2. 2
   adjective

   Having beds in it, ready for people to sleep.

   The shelter was fully bedded, so everyone had a place to sleep.

   Their cabin came nicely bedded for the whole family.

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3. 3
   adjective

   Lying in flat layers, the way rock or coal sits underground.

   Like the flat layers you can see in a sliced layer cake.

   The bedded coal stretched for miles beneath the quiet valley.

   Geologists mapped the finely bedded limestone along the cliff face.

   Similarlayered, stratified

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4. 4
   adjective

   Planted or grouped together in one patch, like a garden bed.

   The bedded tulips opened all at once in early spring.

   Divers counted the bedded oysters clinging to the rocky reef.

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5. 5
   adjective

   Having a floor covered with straw, sand, or wood chips.

   The well-bedded stall kept the horses warm through the cold winter.

   They led the tired cattle into a freshly bedded barn.

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6. 6
   adjective

   Lying flat against a surface, pressed down.

   Like grass pressed flat where someone has been lying.

   The bedded grass showed where the deer had slept overnight.

   After the storm, the bedded wheat was hard to harvest.

   Similarflattened, lodged, prostrate

   Oppositeupright, standing

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7. 7
   adjective

   Describes someone who has had sex and is no longer a virgin.

   In that household, only a bedded daughter was thought ready for marriage.

   She faced the gossips as a bedded widow, indifferent to their whispers.

   Oppositevirgin, virginal

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8. 8
   adjective

   Already in bed for the night.

   With the children safely bedded, she finally sat down to rest.

   By ten o'clock the whole household was bedded and quiet.

   Similarasleep

   Oppositeawake, up

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