overalled
- adjective
- /ˈoʊvərˌæld/
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vestido con overoles
- All saved; and woman, man, and child sucking air, rushing past porches filled with overalled men and calico-clad women resting, staring at this bullet, dust dusting their Sunday silence and exhaustion.
Examples
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Mo gives a nod to the overalled workers as he and Shades head up to the dilapidated warehouse at the center of the yard.
Fiction book (1990) -
The overalled workers were busy repairing the roads in the hot sun.
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She admired the skilled craftsmen in their overalled uniforms as they built the new bridge.
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The festival featured demonstrations by overalled farmers showcasing traditional techniques.
Synonyms
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4.4
Wearing an apron while working in a kitchen
Antonyms
How Casual
Surface Forms
Morphology
overalled = overalls (transparent) = overalls + ed
Formed by adding the productive suffix '-ed' to the noun 'overalls' to mean 'wearing overalls', which a learner can directly infer.
Etymology
Overalled comes from the clothing name overalls, which was named because you put them 'over all' your other clothes. So overalled means 'wearing overalls', often used for people in work clothes like mechanics or painters.