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roofed

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roof  (rf, rf)
n.
1.
a. The exterior surface and its supporting structures on the top of a building.
b. The upper exterior surface of a dwelling as a symbol of the home itself: three generations living under one roof.
2. The top covering of something: the roof of a car.
3. The upper surface of an anatomical structure, especially one having a vaulted inner structure: the roof of the mouth.
4. The highest point or limit; the summit or ceiling: A roof on prices is needed to keep our customers happy.
tr.v. roofed, roof·ing, roofs
To furnish or cover with or as if with a roof.
Idioms:
go through the roof Slang
1. To grow, intensify, or rise to an enormous, often unexpected degree: Operating costs went through the roof last year.
2. To become extremely angry: When I told her about breaking the window, she went through the roof.
raise the roof Slang
1. To be extremely noisy and boisterous: They raised the roof at the party.
2. To complain loudly and bitterly: Angry tenants finally raised the roof about their noisy neighbors.

[Middle English, from Old English hrf.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.roofed - covered with a roof; having a roof as specified (often used in combination); "roofed picnic areas"; "a slate-roofed house"; "palmleaf-roofed huts"
combining form - a bound form used only in compounds; "`hemato-' is a combining form in words like `hematology'"
roofless - not having a roof; "the hurricane left hundreds of house roofless"

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But he put away the fat and all the flesh in the high- roofed byre, placing them high up to be a token of his youthful theft.
We held a housewarming in my hut the night it was roofed.
I stayed two months in the province of Ligonus, and during that time procured a church to be built of hewn stone, roofed and wainscoted with cedar, which is the most considerable in the whole country.
 
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