English

Verb

graveled

1. simple past tense and past participle of gravel

Adjective

graveled

1. Covered with gravel.
   • 2006 May 5, Harold Henderson, “Snips”, in Chicago Reader:

     The soldiers admitted that while they had the money to lay gravel on a particular road, they lacked the funds to pave it, even though all agreed that graveled roads offered easy concealment for IEDs.

2. Perplexed, puzzled, baffled; troubled, annoyed.
   • 1894, Anthony Hope, Dolly Dialogues:

     "The fracture is your making; the pin--" Here Miss Dolly interrupted; to tell the truth I was not sorry, for I was fairly graveled for the meaning of the pin.

   • 1919, Christopher Darlington Morley, Mince Pie:

     'Oh, yes,' says Jan. Pond was graveled; didn't know just what to do.