sanded

English

Verb

sanded

1. simple past and past participle of sand

Adjective

sanded (not comparable)

1. (of a surface) Having been smoothed through any process.
2. Covered with sand.
   • 1958, Ovid, The Metamorphoses, translated by Horace Gregory, New York: Viking, Book XIII, p. 370,

     Your funeral wreath shall be your mother's tears,

     Your tomb the sanded waste of foreign shores.

   • 1976, Edna O'Brien, chapter 3, in Mother Ireland, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 66:

     The fishes in your imagination were flesh pink, medium sized like dab, and the loaves were white like altar breads, only fatter and spongier. The place where the miracle occurred was green and leafy and not at all the sparse sanded land that you were later to see.

Anagrams

• dedans, desand, sadden