glassed
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past participleof glass.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
glassnouna hard, brittle, noncrystalline, more or less transparent substance produced by fusion, usually consisting of mutually dissolved silica and silicates that also contain soda and lime, as in the ordinary variety used for windows and bottles. -
past tense formof glass.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
glassnouna hard, brittle, noncrystalline, more or less transparent substance produced by fusion, usually consisting of mutually dissolved silica and silicates that also contain soda and lime, as in the ordinary variety used for windows and bottles.
Example Sentences
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Wearing a plain khaki T-shirt and round-rimmed glassed, Griner was ushered a courtroom by police at Khimki District Court outside Moscow, Griner held up personal photographs before taking a seat in the defendant's cage.
From Reuters ● Aug. 2, 2022
The CD isn’t glassed in, and spins freely.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2018
Kelp bobbed in the shallows, and the rockpools were glassed with ice.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2018
The actual window had been glassed off and transformed into a tableau mordant of how it might have looked 50 years ago, complete with repositories of musty school text books.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2013
A glassed case in the corner held the curios he had collected—specimens of butterflies, a rare arrowhead, a curious rock shaped like a human profile.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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