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furred

SayFURDUS/fɜɹd/UK · AUS/fɜːd/

6 meanings of furred

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  1. 1
    adjective
    Covered with a coat of fur.

    Like a teddy bear, covered all over in soft hair.

    The furred kitten curled up by the fire.

    Her pet rabbit is soft and furred all over.

    Similarfurry, hairy

    Oppositehairless

  2. 2
    adjective
    Covered with thin, soft, short hairs.

    Like the soft fuzz on the skin of a peach.

    The peach felt furred under her fingers.

    Young leaves on the plant looked furred with tiny soft hairs.

    Similardowny, fuzzy, hairy, velvety

    Oppositesmooth, hairless, glabrous

  3. 3
    adjective
    Made 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.

  4. 4
    verb
    Past 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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  5. 5
    adjective
    Of 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.

    Similarcoated, furry

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  6. 6
    adjective
    Covered with a layer that looks or feels like fur.

    Like the fuzzy white layer that grows on old bread.

    The old kettle was furred with hard white scale inside.

    Mold left the forgotten bread furred with gray fuzz.

    Similarcoated, encrusted, furry

furred is a form of fur

fur, verb: To cover something with fur or a coating that looks like fur. Full entry

Forms
furfurs he/she/itfurring -ing formfurred past tense, past participle
Spelling
fur → furred: double the r, add -ed
Sound
The ending sounds like /d/.

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