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GROOVED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does grooved mean?
• GROOVED (adjective)
The adjective GROOVED has 1 sense:
1. established as if settled into a groove or rut
Familiarity information: GROOVED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Established as if settled into a groove or rut
Synonyms:
grooved; well-grooved
Similar:
constituted; established (brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established)
Context examples
They do not see what is not obvious, are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-grooved lives to other and strange grooves.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
His heavily thatched eyebrows covered quick, furtive grey eyes, and his gaunt features were hollowed at the cheek and temple like water-grooved flint.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Every joint of it was well grooved; and the door did not move on hinges, but up and down like a sash, which kept my closet so tight that very little water came in.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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