furred
SayFURDUS/fɜɹd/UK · AUS/fɜːd/
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- 3Made or trimmed using animal fur.
Like a winter coat lined with soft animal fur.
She wore a furred hood to keep out the cold.
The collar was furred with soft rabbit pelt.
- 4Past tense and past participle of fur. Use it for the past, or after has, have or had.
The builder furred out the wall before adding the panels.
The carpenters furred the basement walls with thin wood strips.
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- 5Of a tongue, covered with a soft, pale coating of dead cells and mucus, often when you are sick.
Like a thin carpet of fuzz spread over the surface of your tongue.
The doctor noticed the boy's furred tongue during the checkup.
When she had the flu, her tongue felt dry and furred.
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furred is a form of fur
fur, verb: To cover something with fur or a coating that looks like fur. Full entry
- Spelling
- fur → furred: double the r, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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