bolted
Meaning of bolted
- (of a horse or other animal) run away suddenly, typically from fear.
the horses shied and bolted
- eat (food) quickly.
there's no need to bolt your food
Middle English: from bolt1, expressing the sense ‘fly like an arrow’.
verb, past tense
pass (flour, powder, or other material) through a sieve.
Middle English: from Old French bulter, of unknown ultimate origin. The change in the first syllable was due to association with bolt1.
Information about bolted
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of bolted
bolted
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- bolted is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
bolted synonyms
Meaning barred:
barred, fast, latched, locked, secured
Meaning eat (something) hurriedly and noisily:
Meaning swallow (drink or food) quickly or in large mouthfuls, often audibly:
Meaning devour (food) greedily:
Meaning eat or drink (something) greedily:
Meaning eat (food or prey) hungrily or quickly:
Meaning eat up (food) quickly:
Meaning knock or bring to the ground:
Meaning kill (someone) unlawfully and with premeditation:
Meaning move or cause to move from one place to another, especially over a small distance:
Meaning swallow (food) hastily or greedily:
Meaning eat a large amount of (food) greedily:
Meaning breathe in (air, gas, smoke, etc.):
Meaning swallow (something) greedily:
Anagrams of bolted
Words that rhyme with bolted
asphalted, desalted, exalted, halted, malted, oversalted, salted, spalted, stringhalted, superexalted, unasphalted, unexalted, unhalted, unmalted, unsalted, bebelted, belted, bepelted, felted, melted, overmelted, pelted, remelted, resmelted, semibelted, smelted, swelted, unbelted, unfelted, unmelted, unpelted, unsmelted, unwelted, welted, bekilted, hilted, jilted, kilted, lilted, milted, overgilted, quilted, silted, stilted, tilted, twilted, unjilted, unmilted, unquilted, unstilted