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knotted

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adj/ˈnɒtɪd//ˈnɑtɪd/
  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.
verb/ˈnɒtɪd//ˈnɑtɪd/
  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of knotform-ofparticiplepast

    • He arrives at school every day with his shoestrings all knotted.
    • Her macrame basket hangers are so well knotted.

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