grassed

1. 1
   adjective

   Having grass growing over its surface, as a lawn or roadside verge.

   The grassed verges along the lane were trimmed every other week through summer.

   After two seasons the bare yard was finally grassed and lush.

   Similargrassy, turfed, green

   Oppositebare

   Note

   An adjective that grew out of a participle. A grassed slope may have been turfed by the covering verb, or grass may simply be growing on it. It sits before the noun, as in Norman Lindsay's "grassed slope of the headland" (1938), or after it, as in Emily Carr's ground that was "clear and grassed" (1942). It takes no degrees: ground is grassed or it is not.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of grass.

   The council grassed the roadside strips after the construction crews left.

   Once the slope was grassed, the soil stopped washing away in the rain.

   Note

   One spelling hides several quite different verbs. A slope can be grassed with turf and cattle grassed with feed, while in slang someone who grassed informed to the authorities. An opponent who was grassed was knocked down and laid out on the grass, and flax is grassed when it is spread on the grass to bleach. Only context tells them apart, so check which verb a sentence means before echoing it.

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