What does matted mean?
Matted means simple past and past participle of mat.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
simple past and past participle of mat.
The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver—over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple […]
As the warrior emerged from the forest, Tarzan caught a fleeting glimpse of a tawny hide worming its way through the matted jungle grasses in his wake—it was Numa, the lion. He, too, was stalking the black man.
The servant led us down a matted passage and showed us at the end into a great library […]
Use matted when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Matted means simple past and past participle of mat.
Common synonyms include dull, flat, tangled, mat.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver—over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple […]
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