pebbled
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4.6
- adjective
- /ˈpɛbld/
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textura de guijarros
- The rain ran in rivulets down the pebbled skin of the muscular hind legs.
- pebbled path
- pebbled glass
- pebbled beach
Examples
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I listen to the sound of Squid's mail truck grinding into the pebbled path.
Fiction book (1992) -
When this cleared, a pebbled path was under my feet.
Fiction book (1999) -
I scuffed my feet on the pebbled ground.
Fiction book (1999) -
Those owners, the LaDucs, were teaching their third generation of children to swim from their small pebbled beach.
Fiction book (2000) -
They stepped out onto the pebbled roof of the tower.
Fiction book (1997) -
The Nairne road was a broad, pebbled way that cut north to south across Caraid-land through field, farm, and wood.
Fiction book (1992) -
In the yard, alongside the wall, runs a pebbled path that separates the house from the sands of the dunes.
Fiction book (1995) -
A pebbled path connects small houses of brick and mud set among coconut palms and other tropical trees.
Blog text (31) -
Yesterday, in what may be a complex of third-century B.C. workshops, they found more than a dozen coins scattered across the pebbled floor, as if spilled by someone running in panic—perhaps during the earthquake that brought down the building's roof.
Academic text (2004) -
The pebbled path felt cool under her feet as she walked through the garden.
Synonyms
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1.0
A surface or movement that is not smooth and has small raised parts
2
5.8
Something that has small rounded bumps like a potato
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3.2
Covered with many small round stones
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8.0
A cloth that has small raised bumps on its surface
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6.2
A surface with many small bumps
A rough, bumpy surface like tiny stones on leather
A surface covered with small stones or pebbles
A surface with many small raised bumps, like stone or metal
A surface with small raised bumps like a rough sweater
Having small rounded lumps on the surface that you can feel
A surface with small raised lines or bumps to help you hold it
How Textured
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pebbled comes from pebble, which means 'small stone', plus the ending -ed that means 'having'. So something pebbled looks or feels like it is covered in little stones or small bumps, like pebbled leather or a stony path.