gravelled
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.66 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of gravel
adj
Alternative form of graveled (“covered with gravel”).
Example Sentences
- "There were wide, gravelled driveways among the graves."
- "I would have to remind her, counteringly, that you don’t pick the person who fronts your life—you get picked, you watch the picker’s ankles vanish into the scrunched socks afterward (his whole body going blank behind the blue-black of the uniform), and the picker goes off in the starkest of transportations: you keep an ear cocked ever after for the return of his van and its paraphernalian clatter in the gravelled driveway."
- "I thought Alan would be gravelled at that, for we lacked the means of writing in that desert."