mittened
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4.2
- adjective
- /ˈmɪtnd/
:
con manoplas
- The other rider, a boy of about seventeen, leaned over to shake Leo's mittened hand.
- mittened hand
Examples
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She motions with her mittened hand.
Fiction book (2000) -
She sniffed in the darkness, a mittened hand resting lightly on his knee.
Fiction book (1990) -
The sun was unusually bright for January, and Maggie raised a mittened hand to shade her eyes.
Fiction book (2000) -
A small mittened hand touched Santa's beard and withdrew.
Fiction book (1996) -
I was already at the Harkers' back door, hammering with mittened fists and calling when my grandmother labored up, breathing heavily.
Fiction book (1991) -
Abby clapped her mittened hands together and stared intently at the field as the play unfolded.
Fiction book (2001) -
The little girl wore her mittened hands while building a snowman in the yard.
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Despite the cold, he bravely raised his mittened hands to catch the snowflakes falling from the sky.
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She struggled to tie her scarf with her mittened fingers, which made the task a bit tricky.
Synonyms
4
3.0
Wearing gloves on the hands
Wearing a protective glove often made of metal or leather
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mittened comes from mitten, which is a small 'glove without separate fingers', plus the ending -ed that shows 'wearing' or 'having'. So, someone who is mittened is simply 'wearing mittens' to keep their hands warm.