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Meanings of honeycombed in anglès

Pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb)

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Examples for "pitted"
Examples for "pitted"
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The car was then pitted after a problem with the rear suspension.
Radio NZ
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We have pitted ourselves against convention in economic affairs; shall we not-
Dennison Grant: A Novel of To-day
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Thailand:Thailand's 2006 military coup pitted plutocracy and hereditary monarchy against each other.
The Irish Times
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Six months of demonstrations pitted Yingluck's supporters against her Bangkok-based royalist opponents.
Reuters
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The short-lived bidding war for China Biologic had pitted two state-backed buyers.
Reuters
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The gray walls shone lifelessly, cavitied as skulls; gaping windows displayed an absence of faces, of rooms.
Poe's children: the new horror : an anthology
Usage of honeycombed in anglès
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The state was honeycombed and mined; society was a tangle of plots.
Animal Heroes
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The snow softened and got honeycombed by the drops from the trees.
The Lure of the North
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I understand the mountain is fairly honeycombed with them in parts, Mr.
The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour; or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake ...
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The cliffs opposite the ancient Egyptian capitals are honeycombed with sepulchral cells.
General History for Colleges and High Schools
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The metal was honeycombed with tunnels and cavities engineered for various purposes.
Seveneves
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But this whole area is honeycombed with these underground dwellings and forts.
Dayworld Rebel
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Quite on the contrary, this country of ours is honeycombed with spies.
Okewood of the Secret Service
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There were barbed-wire entanglements everywhere, and every field was honeycombed with trenches.
Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front
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Of these, thirty are to replace guns that are honeycombed, or split.
The Tiger of Mysore: A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib
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I saw caverns, open, widened tunnels, as though this mountain were honeycombed.
Beyond the Vanishing Point
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We found water; the mountain was honeycombed with underground streams; but no food.
Under the Andes
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I was always fascinated by the many secret passageways which honeycombed the house.
Ghosts
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Well, the place seems to be honeycombed with ways in and ways out.
The Wharf by the Docks: A Novel
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The interior space was honeycombed with holes made by the shells.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17
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The biscuit was a honeycombed heap of maggots, and the excrement of maggots.
The Uncommercial Traveller
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In brief, the whole Russian bureaucracy was honeycombed by German influence.
Bolshevism: The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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