cribbed
Because it is a word with a single syllable, cribbed is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofcribbed
- To place or confine in a crib.
- To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
- To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
Example: "I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own."
- To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
- To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
- To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
- (Indian English) To complain, to grumble
- To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
- (of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
- Placed in a crib.
Example: "The cribbed baby was quite content."
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