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Knotted

//ˈnɒtɪd// adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Full of knots; knotty.

    "These men lashed themselves and each other unmercifully with knotted leather scourges until the blood ran, two or three times daily."

  2. 2
    Tied in knots.
  3. 3
    Tangled, tangly, knotty, entangled, matted, snarled, unkempt, or uncombed.
  4. 4
    Having the shape or form of a knot.

    "Grey hairs straggled out from under her head-gear, which surrounded a dark face with bushy eyebrows and a long knotted nose."

Adjective
  1. 1
    tied with a knot wordnet
  2. 2
    used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of knot form-of, participle, past

    "He arrives at school every day with his shoestrings all knotted."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English knotted, iknotted, from the past participle of the verb knotten.

Etymology 2

From Middle English knotted, iknotted, from the past participle of the verb knotten.

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