matted

English

Verb

matted

simple past tense and past participle of mat

Adjective

matted (comparative more matted, superlative most matted)

forming a thick tangled mess
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:
  The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver—over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple […]
covered with mats or matting

Derived terms

Translations

forming a thick tangled mess

Bulgarian: сплъстен (bg) (splǎsten)
German: verfilzt (de)
Italian: aggrovigliato (it), arruffato (it), ingarbugliato (it), infeltrito (it)
Maori: rirapa, rīraparapa
Portuguese: emaranhado
Russian: спутанный (ru) (sputannyj)

covered with mats or matting

Bulgarian: матиран (bg) (matiran)
Italian: coperto di stuoie, fatto a stuoia

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