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potted
[ pot-id ]
/ ˈpɒt ɪd /
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adjective
placed or enclosed in a pot. transplanted into or grown in a pot. preserved or cooked in a pot: potted beef. British Slang. (of the treatment of a subject) shallow; superficial.
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Origin of potted
1640–50; 1920–25
for def. 4;
pot1 +
-ed2OTHER WORDS FROM potted
un·pot·ted, adjectiveWords nearby potted
potsticker,
pot still,
potstone,
potsy,
pottage,
potted,
potter,
Potteresque,
Potteries,
potter's clay,
potter's field Dictionary.com Unabridged
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Words related to potted
bashed,
befuddled,
buzzed,
crocked,
flushed,
flying,
fuddled,
glazed,
inebriate,
intoxicated,
laced,
lit,
muddled,
plastered,
sloshed,
stewed,
stoned,
tanked,
totaled,
wasted How to use potted in a sentence
For homes with a balcony or a deck, the winner is a potted Winter Gem Boxwood.
Much like her character, Esco frequently quotes influential people and launches into potted history lessons.
Another industry insider is not so kind, “Some artists contribute as much as a potted plant.”
In that chapter, Jennie has a conversation with a potted plant that tries, without success, to talk her out of leaving home.
At the side of another house, a few potted houseplants had begun to wither, but the others still looked perfect.
Republican Sen. John Cornyn complained in a tweet that Congress was being treated like “a potted plant.”
"Potted tongue," she exclaimed, dodging round the table, and lifting various covers.
On their pretty bamboo trellises the potted morning-glory vines held out flowers as yet unopened.
Wilder drew forth half a bottle of milk, an open tin of potted ham and several portions of bread.
We arranged flowers everywhere, and bought potted plants at a little nursery hard by.
The house is decorated with palms, potted plants, flowers, and other foliage.
British Dictionary definitions for potted
adjective
placed or grown in a pot
cooked or preserved in a potpotted shrimps
informal summarized or abridgeda potted version of a novel
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