webbed
WEBD/ˈwɛbd/
- 1Having toes or fingers joined together by a thin piece of skin.
Like a paddle, where skin fills the gaps between the toes.
Ducks have webbed feet that help them swim.
The frog's webbed toes spread wide as it leaped into the pond.
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- 2Looking like a spider's web, with many thin lines crossing each other.
Like the thin lines of a spider's web crossing over each other.
The old window was covered in a webbed pattern of cracks.
Frost made a webbed design across the cold glass.
- 3Past tense of web. Use this when talking about something that already happened.
Spiders had webbed the entire corner of the shed.
The thick branches webbed together over the narrow path.
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webbed is a form of web
web, verb: To catch or trap someone or something, or get them tangled up. Full entry
- Spelling
- web → webbed: double the b, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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