ballasted

Meaning of ballasted

verb, past tense
  1. give stability to (a ship) by putting a heavy substance in its bilge.
    the vessel has been ballasted to give the necessary floating stability
    people insufficiently ballasted with factual information
  2. form (the bed of a railway line or the substratum of a road) with gravel or coarse stone.
    the track was laid with rails and ballasted with earth

mid 16th century: probably of Low German or Scandinavian origin.

Information about ballasted

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of ballasted

bal-lasted

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • ballasted is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with ballasted

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