cored

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past tense and past participle of core.

   He cored the peppers and scraped out the seeds.

   The fruit had been cored before it reached the kitchen.

   Note

   A regular verb, so one form covers both the past tense and the participle: core simply adds -d. The participle used before a noun can mislead, because it means the core is gone. A cored apple or pepper has had its center taken out, while the adjective 'having a core' says the opposite, as in cored solder. With a drill, the participle describes material cut through to extract a sample.

2. 2
   adjective

   Having a core: a central part, channel, or hollow that runs through the interior.

   The factory produced cored bricks with hollow channels to cut weight.

   Cored solder holds a flux center that flows into the joint as it melts.

   Similarhollow

   Oppositesolid

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