What does elbowed mean?
Elbowed means simple past and past participle of elbow.
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/ˈɛlbəʊd/ · verb
simple past and past participle of elbow.
With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.
Justices in the past have avoided such elbowed writings because their benefits have been seen as smaller than their risks.
Use elbowed when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Elbowed means simple past and past participle of elbow.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.
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