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rutted

/ruht/US // rʌt //UK // (rʌt) //

有车辙的,车辙的,车辙,有车辙

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a furrow or track in the ground, especially one made by the passage of a vehicle or vehicles.
    • : any furrow, groove, etc.
    • : a fixed or established mode of procedure or course of life, usually dull or unpromising: to fall into a rut.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    rut·ted, rut·ting.

    • : to make a rut or ruts in; furrow.

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Examples

  • He went to his Jeep, raised a hand toward the cabin, and made for the rutted track through the woods.

  • Approaching a road rutted with streetcar channels, McGlinchey told himself: Steer clear.

  • Intermittent, torrential rain showers turned the rutted, cratered road into a bog of red mud.

  • She heard a thud that made her ears ring, and suddenly Wolf Paw was slumping to the rutted trail in front of her.

  • We take our rutted thoughts, our predispositions, our cultural concepts wherever we go.

  • They rode on past a stockyard, and into a rutted street of bare frame houses, and Hetty was glad they scarcely met anybody.

  • The road had been deeply rutted during the November rains, and now the ruts were frozen.

  • The ground was hard and rutted with frosty mud and bruised her slender feet through her white buckskin sandals.