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Definition of Checked
1. Adjective. Patterned with alternating squares of color.
Definition of Checked
1. Adjective. (North America) Having a pattern of checks; checkered. ¹
2. Adjective. (phonology) Of syllables, having a coda. ¹
3. Adjective. (phonology) Of consonants, glottalized. ¹
4. Verb. (past of check) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Checked
1. check [v] - See also: check
Lexicographical Neighbors of Checked
Literary usage of Checked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, John Bagnell Bury (1897)
"Their progress was checked by their want of arms and discipline, and their fury
was diverted by the intestine divisions of ancient Germany. ..."
2. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1839)
"To some it appears to be a novel accident, which as such may still be checked;
to others it seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, ..."
3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"The thunder-stroke checked the the cavalrymen that he thought were following him in
... He thought a shell had fallen among them. This momentarily checked ..."
4. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"Their prog ress was checked by their want of arms and discipline, anu .heir fury
was diverted by the intestine divisions of ancient Germany. ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1885)
"Our earliest authority, Gildas, speaks of him with enthusiasm, but with little
definiteness, as the leader who checked the victorious advance of the Saxon ..."
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