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bladed

American  
[bley-did] / ˈbleɪ dɪd /

adjective

  1. having a blade or blades (often used in combination).

    a single-bladed leaf.

  2. Crystallography. of or relating to a thin, flat form suggestive of knife blades.

    bladed arsenopyrite.


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Etymology

Origin of bladed

First recorded in 1570–80; blade + -ed 3

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Photos and a video Aiello provided show bladed wire snaking around the decomposing animal’s neck and curved horns, as well as the front legs, in a desert landscape dotted with boulders.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 3, 2026

I loved the bladed mannequins, and I wish 15-year-old Stef had seen those.

From BBC Sep. 29, 2025

The newest — described on Thursday by a team of researchers in the journal PeerJ — is Lokiceratops rangiformis, a five-ton herbivore with spectacular, curving brow horns and huge, bladed spikes on its meter-long frill.

From New York Times Jun. 20, 2024

Police alleged the garden tool had “a sharp bladed end.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 21, 2024

He bladed his finger across my forehead and flicked the sweat away.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia

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