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ROOFED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Covered with a roof; having a roof as specified (often used in combination)
Example:
palmleaf-roofed huts
Classified under:
Domain usage:
combining form (a bound form used only in compounds)
Antonym:
roofless (not having a roof)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb roof
Context examples:
A high dais at the further end was roofed in by a broad canopy of scarlet velvet spangled with silver fleurs-de-lis, and supported at either corner by silver rods.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I sought no shelter, therefore, but the sky; and toiling into Chatham,—which, in that night's aspect, is a mere dream of chalk, and drawbridges, and mastless ships in a muddy river, roofed like Noah's arks,—crept, at last, upon a sort of grass-grown battery overhanging a lane, where a sentry was walking to and fro.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
At first the steps of a few belated villagers, or the sound of voices from the village, lightened our vigil, but one by one these interruptions died away, and an absolute stillness fell upon us, save for the chimes of the distant church, which told us of the progress of the night, and for the rustle and whisper of a fine rain falling amid the foliage which roofed us in.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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