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View definitions for ridged

ridged

adjective as in crinkled

adjective as in with ridges

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As we continued the ascent—from the summit of Little Haystack Mountain, up along the ridge to Mount Lincoln and the highest peak, Mount Lafayette—our legs grew increasingly wobbly and the sun dipped into the horizon.

More closely spaced ridges produced more frequent sets of spikes while larger spaces produced less frequent bursts of electrical activity.

I pulled over near Norbeck Pass, just as the sun was dipping behind a toothy ridge of eroding rock.

The connective ridges near the back of the beetle, on the other hand, are not as intricately interlocked, allowing the top and bottom halves of the exoskeleton to slide past each other slightly.

The ridge at the bottom—which keeps your laptop or Kindle from sliding down—doubles as an orthopedic wrist rest, to help ease carpal tunnel or prevent wrist pain in the first place.

Even the Grass-land is often ridged so as to shed the water quickly, while deep ditches or drains do duty for fences.

In Devonshire, particularly among the farmers and poorer classes, the ridged coffin is very general, the end being gabled.

Everywhere the snow lay ridged with purple and brown hedges.

But towards the middle of the curve the cliff face seemed ridged and broken near the base.

The knuckle-plate is usually ridged with a rope-shaped crest or with bosses imitating the knuckles.

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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ridged, such as: corrugated, furrowed, jagged, ribbed, and toothed.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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