washboarded
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of washboard
Example Sentences
- "In the case of trucks, a badly “washboarded” highway tends to limit the maximum possible load which the truck's springs can carry."
- "To estimate this sap tension, a cylindrical item, having the same radius as that of the depressions on the wavy, washboarded surface, was pressed from the top into the earlywood layer of a specimen placed on the flat dynamometer, until the depth of depression produced equalled that for the washboarded surface."
- "So, into his car we climbed, driving about five and a half miles east of town on bumpy, dusty, hilly, washboarded gravel roads, churning up a trail of dust as we went."
- "Chances are good that it is extremely washboarded by now."
Inflected Forms
more washboarded (comparative)
most washboarded (superlative)