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motored

[ moh-terd ]

adjective

  1. having a motor or motors, especially of a specified number or type (usually used in combination):

    a bimotored airplane.



-motored

adjective

  1. in combination having a specified type of motor or number of motors
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • multi·motored adjective
  • un·motored adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of motored1

First recorded in 1925–30; motor + -ed 3
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Example Sentences

Colbert motored through the entire shoot, never requiring so much as a second take or flubbing a line.

A few minutes later, a man in a 1990s Ford Probe motored up to the scene, smoking a long cigarette.

In the evening, crossed the glassy bay and motored to pay a double-barrelled visit to the Military and Civil Governors.

The Fords had motored her up to town to see the celebrations and to go to a ball at one of the big hotels that night.

Tiny Moth planes stood wing to wing with huge tri-motored cabin ships that would hold a dozen passengers each.

They call their smaller single-motored machines their "avions de rglage," or "regulating aeroplanes."

One morning during the time that I was stationed in that district I motored over to see him.

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