📖 Definitions of "Bolted"
- 1
To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
"Bolt the vice to the bench."
- 2
To secure a door by locking or barring it.
"Bolt the door."
- 3
To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
"Seeing the snake, the horse bolted."
- 4
To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
"to bolt a rabbit"
- 1
To sift, especially through a cloth.
- 2
To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
"Graham flour is unbolted flour."
- 3
To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
- 4
To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
🔄 Synonyms of "Bolted"
6 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| fastnoun | (dated) Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable. |
| barred | Prevented, either by a physical barrier or by conditions. |
| fastened | firmly closed or secured |
| locked | Having undergone locking; secured by a lock. |
| secured | That has been secured or fastened. |
| latched | firmly fastened or secured against opening |
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Bolted"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| barredverb | Prevented, either by a physical barrier or by conditions. |
| fastverb | (intransitive) To practice religious abstinence, especially from food. |
| fastenedverb | firmly closed or secured |
| latched | firmly fastened or secured against opening |
| lockedverb | Having undergone locking; secured by a lock. |
| secured | That has been secured or fastened. |
| aggregated | gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole |
| escaped | Having escaped, especially from prison or another place of confinement. |
| fledverb | a 1996 American buddy action comedy film directed by Kevin Hooks. |
| leftnoun | Designating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north; the side of the body on which the heart is located in most humans; the opposite of right. This arrow points to the reader's left: ← |
| screwedverb | (slang, mildly vulgar) Beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger. |
| sealed | Closed by a seal. |
| spun | a 2002 American black comedy crime drama film directed by Jonas Åkerlund from an original screenplay by William De Los Santos and Creighton Vero, based on three days of De Los Santos's life in the Eugene, Oregon drug subculture. |
| tailed | (often in combination) Having a tail. |
| scampered | Achieved by a scampering motion. |
| sprintedverb | (ambitransitive) To run, cycle, etc. at top speed for a short period. |
| raced | (social studies) Belonging to a certain race of people. |
| dashed | (of a line) Made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next. |
| shotverb | Tired, weary. |
| rushed | Done in haste; done quickly or hastily. |
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