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Definition: ESCARPED

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. Of Escarp.[Websters]
2. To be slushed. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. To have scarped, sloped, slanted or hilled. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. To be cliffed. [Eve - graph theoretic]
5. To have banked. [Eve - graph theoretic]
6. To be diked, dyked or causewayed. [Eve - graph theoretic]
7. To have scraped, junked, trashed or rasped. [Eve - graph theoretic]
8. To have rubbished, burrowed, wasted or littered.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Past Tense 1. Seldom used past tense conjugation of the verb escarp.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(escarp)
1. To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scrap.[Websters].
2. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: escarping, escarped, escarps, escarper, escarpers, escarpingly and escarpedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "Escarped" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Definition: ESCARPED

Part of SpeechDefinition
Verb1. Of Escarp.[Websters]
2. To be slushed. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. To have scarped, sloped, slanted or hilled. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. To be cliffed. [Eve - graph theoretic]
5. To have banked. [Eve - graph theoretic]
6. To be diked, dyked or causewayed. [Eve - graph theoretic]
7. To have scraped, junked, trashed or rasped. [Eve - graph theoretic]
8. To have rubbished, burrowed, wasted or littered.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Past Tense1. Seldom used past tense conjugation of the verb escarp.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(escarp)
1. To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scrap.[Websters].
2. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: escarping, escarped, escarps, escarper, escarpers, escarpingly and escarpedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "ESCARPED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Specialty Definition: escarp

DomainDefinition
Noah Webster [Verb] To slope; to form a slope; a military term. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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