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Rolled   /roʊld/   Listen
Rolled

adjective
1.
Especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward.  Synonym: involute.
2.
Uttered with a trill.  Synonyms: rolling, trilled.
3.
Rolled up and secured.  Synonym: furled.  "A furled flag" , "His rolled umbrella hanging on his arm"


Roll

verb
(past & past part. rolled; pres. part. rolling)
1.
Move by turning over or rotating.  Synonym: turn over.  "Turn over on your left side"
2.
Move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle.  Synonym: wheel.
3.
Occur in soft rounded shapes.  Synonym: undulate.
4.
Flatten or spread with a roller.  Synonym: roll out.
5.
Emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound.  "Rolling drums"
6.
Arrange or or coil around.  Synonyms: twine, wind, wrap.  "Twine the thread around the spool" , "She wrapped her arms around the child"
7.
Begin operating or running.  "The presses are already rolling"
8.
Shape by rolling.
9.
Execute a roll, in tumbling.
10.
Sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity.  Synonyms: hustle, pluck.
11.
Move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion.  Synonyms: flap, undulate, wave.  "The waves rolled towards the beach"
12.
Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.  Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander.  "Roving vagabonds" , "The wandering Jew" , "The cattle roam across the prairie" , "The laborers drift from one town to the next" , "They rolled from town to town"
13.
Move, rock, or sway from side to side.
14.
Cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis.  Synonym: revolve.  "They rolled their eyes at his words"
15.
Pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/.
16.
Boil vigorously.  Synonym: seethe.  "The water rolled"
17.
Take the shape of a roll or cylinder.  "Yarn rolls well"
18.
Show certain properties when being rolled.  Synonym: roll up.  "Dried-out tobacco rolls badly"



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"Rolled" Quotes from Famous Books



... know when thou wast dead; A blackbird whistling overhead 50 Thrilled through my brain; I would have fled, But dared not leave thee, Rosaline! The sun rolled down, and very soon, Like a great fire, the awful moon Rose, stained with blood, and then a swoon Crept ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell
... and the year of 1850. For two weeks snow had rushed over the creaking gable of the forest above Martha Vaughn's, to pile in drifts or go hissing down the long hillside. A freezing blast had driven it to the roots of the stubble and sown it deep and rolled it into ridges and whirled it into heaps and mounds, or flung it far in long waves that seemed to plunge, as if part of a white sea, and break over fence and roof and chimney in their downrush. Candle and firelight filtered ...
— Darrel of the Blessed Isles • Irving Bacheller
... hopeful, we sped along the dry, smooth path that now lay before us, with the ardor and vivacity of heroes, and the ease and power of veterans, We rolled three ordinary marches into one that day, and long before ...
— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley
... waved his hand and sat down on a rock that was shaded by a high bowlder; reached mechanically for his "makings" and with his feet far apart and his elbows on his thighs, wearily rolled a cigarette. ...
— The Heritage of the Sioux • B.M. Bower
... Catharine had an extra plate laid, and ordered Berbel to go to bed. The Colonel folded up Father Meiser's million, rolled it carefully among a pile of bank-bills, and put the whole into the little pocket-book which his dear ...
— The Man With The Broken Ear • Edmond About


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