milled
Because it is a word with a single syllable, milled is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofmilled
- To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
Example: "to mill flour"
- To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
- To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
- (followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
Example: "I didn't have much to do, so I just milled around the town looking at the shops."
- To cause to mill, or circle around.
Example: "to mill cattle"
- (of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
- (of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
- To beat; to pound.
- To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
- To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
- To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
- To undergo hulling.
Example: "This maize mills well."
- To take part in a fistfight; to box.
- To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
- (thieves' cant) To commit burglary.
- (trading card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
- (Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
- Ground by a mill.
Example: "Coarsely milled maize is termed cornmeal, but when finely milled and sifted it is called corn flour."
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