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Webster 1913 Edition
Unroofed
Un-roofed′
,Adj.
1.
[Properly p. p. of
unroof
.] Stripped of a roof, or similar covering.
Broken carriages, dead horses,
unroofed
cottages, all indicated the movements. Sir W. Scott.
2.
[Pref.
un-
not + roofed
.] Not yet roofed.
Webster 1828 Edition
Unroofed
UNROOF'ED
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Definition 2024
unroofed
unroofed
English
Adjective
unroofed (not comparable)
- Not roofed, not having a roof.
- 1955, Thomas Mann, Confessions of Felix Krull, translated by Denver Lindley, Signet, 1963, Book Three, Chapter VII, p. 254,
- Stone pillars had been raised, a number of them; they stood unroofed, forming a hall of pillars with only the heavens as ceiling, and on the plain beyond the sun was just rising, flaming red, over the edge of the world.
- 2010, Lola Shoneyin, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, Harper Collins, Chapter 9,
- Every eye watched Baba Segi as he barged through the door of the unroofed pit latrine.
- 1955, Thomas Mann, Confessions of Felix Krull, translated by Denver Lindley, Signet, 1963, Book Three, Chapter VII, p. 254,
Translations
not roofed
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Verb
unroofed
- simple past tense and past participle of unroof