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bladed

[ bley-did ]

adjective

  1. having a blade or blades (often used in combination):

    a single-bladed leaf.

  2. Crystallography. of or relating to a thin, flat form suggestive of knife blades:

    bladed arsenopyrite.



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Other Words From

  • multi·bladed adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of bladed1

First recorded in 1570–80; blade + -ed 3

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Example Sentences

For the typical homeowner living in a region with low to moderate wind speeds, a traditional bladed turbine is likely the most effective option.

Now while the conventional xiphos had a straight-bladed design, by the 5th century BC, the hoplites probably began to adopt the shorter and curvier kopis – which almost resembled a cleaver.

At Johns Hopkins, Stewart and colleagues are using cadavers, dissecting the ears using surgical methods from the 1800s, and more recently, with a $7,000 diamond-bladed saw.

The signature weapon of the Sith is the red-bladed lightsabers, which they created by corrupting Kyber crystals with the dark side and making them “bleed.”

Under the back seat, he had a machete, a samurai sword, and a double-bladed battle-ax—“street-fighting stuff,” he told me with a chuckle, knowing exactly how insane that sounded.

He raised his long-bladed knife to strike, but before he could bring his arm down, the dagger was beaten from his grasp.

Reaching upward with his long-bladed knife, he touched it against the white belly of the monster, and then gave it a strong push.

The wind was keen and terrible as a saw-bladed sword, and smote incessantly.

The long two-bladed paddle lay in the bottom, just as he himself had laid it after rowing ashore with The Panther.

As it was, he only saw the same dark resolute countenances and ringed heads, the same great broad-bladed assegais.

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