cobwebbed
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5.7
- adjective
- /ˈkɔbˌwɛbd/
:
cubierto de telarañas
- When the loss of the house began to settle on his cobwebbed mind, Mr. Archy became even more disgruntled.
- cobwebbed window
Examples
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"I'm sorry," he repeated, feeling and sounding like a stranger again, as if he was once more standing outside her door in the dark, cobwebbed hall beneath the stage.
Fiction book (1994) -
A little light seeps in dustily between cracks in the boards, secondhand from a cobwebbed window somewhere across the cellar.
Fiction book (1991) -
Dark, cobwebbed stone walls encasing a
Fiction book (1999) -
Mene, mene echoed in some cobwebbed nook of my brain.
Fiction book (1999) -
In the basement, sandwiched between the cobwebbed storage lockers and the rack of rusted gardening tools, three washer-dryer sets pressed up against a dank section of wall.
Fiction book (2002) -
She aims the station wagon into the garage, and before the headlights bear evenly on the wall ahead, they graze her father's hunting rifle, still propped in one cobwebbed corner.
Fiction book (1990) -
Apart from the cobwebbed curtains, which looked as though they might fall apart if you touched them, the only decoration was a laminated map of Hope and some blackened cast-iron pans that hung from nails above the cracked enamel sink.
Fiction book (1998) -
In the dollhouse, three little dolls, thick with dust, sat stiffly in the moonlit living room: the child on the cobwebbed couch, the mother on the rocker, and the father on the armchair with tiny lace doilies.
Fiction book (1994) -
The old attic was filled with cobwebbed furniture, untouched for years and coated in dust.
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She discovered a cobwebbed book in the corner of the library, revealing its long period of neglect.
Synonyms
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7.5
A thing that has thin spider webs on it
Covered with spider webs and dust because it has not been used
Antonyms
How Cobwebbed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cobwebbed comes from cob and web, where cob was an old English word for 'spider' and web is the 'net' a spider makes. So something cobwebbed is covered in spider webs and feels old, unused, or forgotten.