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Hollowed out, as a mountain
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caverned
Word definitions for caverned in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caverned \Cav"erned\, a. Containing caverns. The wolves yelled on the caverned hill. --Byron. Living in a cavern. ``Caverned hermit.'' --Pope.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context poetic English) Pitted or hollowed out with caverns. 2 Living in a cavern.
Usage examples of caverned.
These half-human, highly developed batrachians they call the Akka prove that evolution in these caverned spaces has certainly pursued one different path than on earth.
These half-human, highly developed batrachians they callthe Akka prove that evolution in these caverned spaces has certainlypursued one different path than on earth.
Golden gorse and purple heather nestle in the fissures of the caverned granite cliffs.
And so she twines the fetters with the flowers Around my yielding limbs, and the fierce bird Stoops to his quarry,--then to feed his rage Of ravening hunger I must drain my blood And let the dew-drenched, poison-breeding night Steal all the freshness from my fading cheek, And leave its shadows round my caverned eyes.
It was as if someone had sucked his brain from the caverned chambers of his skull, leaving only an echoing hollow, or pumped his brain like a pink-gray slurry through the twisted copper tubes of a moonshiner's still, then spat the results back into his skull again.
Those timbered ridges were but billows of that tremendous slope that now sheered above Jean, ending in a magnificent yellow wall of rock, greened in niches, stained by weather rust, carved and cracked and caverned.