crowned
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Definitions ofcrowned
- To place a crown on the head of.
- To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
- To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
- To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
- To declare (someone) a winner.
- Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
Example: "The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had just crowned, prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives."
- To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
- To hit on the head.
- To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
- In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
Example: "“Crown me!” I said, as I moved my checker to the back row."
- To widen the opening of the barrel.
- To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
- To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
- Wearing a crown.
- Great; excessive; supreme.
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