🐴 Groomed with brush 🐴 To brush animal 🍛 With curry spices

to curried

8.5

To groom an animal by brushing it with a currycomb

verb
/ˈkɜːrid/

: cepillar

Before the parade, she carefully curried her pony until it gleamed.

Examples

The stable hand curried the horse every morning to keep its coat healthy.
He curried the mare after a long ride through the muddy fields.
He curried the horse before the show.
The groom curries the horses daily.
The stable hand curried the horse every morning to keep its coat healthy.
Before the parade, she carefully curried her pony until it gleamed.
He curried the mare after a long ride through the muddy fields.

Synonyms

to groom

vsto curried

40 2.3

To make hair or fur clean and neat by brushing

focuses on animal cleaning with a short-toothed brush not general appearance care

to curry

vsto curried

1 8.2

To brush an animal's coat to make it clean and shiny

specifies cleaning using a short-toothed brush rather than general brushing

to currycomb

vsto curried

9.1

To clean a horse's coat with a comb that has short teeth

refers to the completed act of cleaning with that short-toothed brush

How Groomed

to curried

8.5

to groom

40 2.3

to clean

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

curried infinitive

curried past

curried past participle

currying present participle

curries third person singular

Morphology

curried = curry (transparent) = curry + ed

Regular past-tense/past-participle formation from the verb 'curry' using the productive English suffix -ed.

Etymology

Curried as the past action comes from the verb curry, which comes from using a currycomb; curry meant 'to rub and comb' animals, so to curry a horse is to clean and groom it.