Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Overgrown with brambles.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Overgrown with brambles.

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  • adjective Overgrown with brambles.

Etymologies

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bramble +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • Near Bungay we turn off into the winding lanes of an estate, pass the hall and slip into the old wood, pulling in the truck down a brambled, grassy concrete road the Americans constructed during the war.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Near Bungay we turn off into the winding lanes of an estate, pass the hall and slip into the old wood, pulling in the truck down a brambled, grassy concrete road the Americans constructed during the war.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • The ground fell away before us to a tiny stream, then rose to brambled banks.

    Poppies and Ghosts « A Fly in Amber 2007

  • A few words, and the Creole nature could influence the lives of the two beings about to walk together through the brambled paths and the dusty high-roads of Parisian society, for Natalie believed in her mother blindly.

    A Marriage Contract 2007

  • Never mind, I will probably only be spreading a bit of weed-suppressant bark and getting a quote for getting the back of the garden de-brambled and dug and levelled and turfed, so I shan't myself be going to any unusual exertions.

    Spring has sprung! jinty 2004

  • It looked so sad, compared with what it used to be, so desolate and brambled up and ruinous, that I scarcely should have known it, except for the gray pedestal of the prostrate dial we used to moralise about.

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

  • For their crane had been left in a brambled hole, and they very soon rigged it out again.

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • If one could make a gas-phase condensate, one would have a less brambled system against which to test one's own physical intuition.

    Eric A. Cornell - Autobiography 2002

  • Too late to worry about that now, thought Dale, and swung the Toyota off the dead-end road into the snowy and brambled yard of the abandoned farmhouse.

    A Winter Haunting Simmons, Dan 2002

  • They were coming the long way round past the brambled wall and he heard Marcella's mothering talk, her crooning seriousness.

    Cal Laverty, Bernard Mac 1983

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