bolted

Meaning of bolted

verb, past tense
  1. (of a horse or other animal) run away suddenly, typically from fear.
    the horses shied and bolted
  2. 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:

gobble

Meaning swallow (drink or food) quickly or in large mouthfuls, often audibly:

gulp

Meaning devour (food) greedily:

wolf

Meaning eat or drink (something) greedily:

guzzle

Meaning eat (food or prey) hungrily or quickly:

devour

Meaning eat up (food) quickly:

demolish

Meaning knock or bring to the ground:

down

Meaning kill (someone) unlawfully and with premeditation:

murder

Meaning move or cause to move from one place to another, especially over a small distance:

shift

Meaning swallow (food) hastily or greedily:

gollop

Meaning eat a large amount of (food) greedily:

gorb

Meaning breathe in (air, gas, smoke, etc.):

inhale

Meaning swallow (something) greedily:

ingurgitate

Anagrams of bolted

bedolt, DeBolt

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

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