Definition of Checked

1. Adjective. Patterned with alternating squares of color.

Exact synonyms: Checkered, Chequered
Similar to: Patterned

Definition of Checked

1. Adjective. (North America) Having a pattern of checks; checkered. ¹

2. Adjective. (phonology) Of syllables, having a coda. ¹

3. Adjective. (phonology) Of consonants, glottalized. ¹

4. Verb. (past of check) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Checked

1. check [v] - See also: check

Lexicographical Neighbors of Checked

check stub
check up
check up on
check weigher
checkability
checkable
checkage
checkages
checkback
checkbite
checkbook
checkbook journalism
checkbooks
checkbox
checkboxes
checked (current term)
checked build
checked in
checked out
checked over
checker
checkerberries
checkerberry
checkerberry oil
checkerbloom
checkerblooms
checkerboard
checkerboards
checkered

Literary usage of Checked

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, John Bagnell Bury (1897)
"Their progress was checked by their want of arms and discipline, and their fury was diverted by the intestine divisions of ancient Germany. ..."

2. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1839)
"To some it appears to be a novel accident, which as such may still be checked; to others it seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, ..."

3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"The thunder-stroke checked the the cavalrymen that he thought were following him in ... He thought a shell had fallen among them. This momentarily checked ..."

4. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"Their prog ress was checked by their want of arms and discipline, anu .heir fury was diverted by the intestine divisions of ancient Germany. ..."

5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1885)
"Our earliest authority, Gildas, speaks of him with enthusiasm, but with little definiteness, as the leader who checked the victorious advance of the Saxon ..."

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