Graveled

adj, verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of gravel form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 1
    Covered with gravel.

    "The soldiers admitted that while they had the money to lay gravel on a particular road, they lacked the funds to pave it, even though all agreed that graveled roads offered easy concealment for IEDs."

  2. 2
    Perplexed, puzzled, baffled; troubled, annoyed.

    ""The fracture is your making; the pin--" Here Miss Dolly interrupted; to tell the truth I was not sorry, for I was fairly graveled for the meaning of the pin."

Example

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"The soldiers admitted that while they had the money to lay gravel on a particular road, they lacked the funds to pave it, even though all agreed that graveled roads offered easy concealment for IEDs."

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