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rutted

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rut 1  (rt)
n.
1. A sunken track or groove made by the passage of vehicles.
2. A fixed, usually boring routine.
tr.v. rut·ted, rut·ting, ruts
To furrow.
[Possibly alteration of route.]
rut 2  (rt)
n.
1. An annually recurring condition or period of sexual excitement and reproductive activity in male deer.
2. A condition or period of mammalian sexual activity, such as estrus.
intr.v. rut·ted, rut·ting, ruts
To be in rut.
[Middle English rutte, from Old French rut, from Vulgar Latin *rgitus, from *rgere, to roar, from Latin rgre, to roar.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.rutted - full of ruts; "rutty farm roads"
rutty
furrowed, rugged - having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface; "furrowed fields"; "his furrowed face lit by a warming smile"
Translations
rutted [ˈrʌtɪd] ADJ → lleno de baches
rutted [ˈrʌtɪd] adj [road, track] → plein(e) d'ornières
rutted [ˈrʌtɪd] adj (road, lane) → con solchi (delle ruote)
rutted [ˈrʌtɪd] adj (road, lane) → con solchi (delle ruote)


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I was tired of school, tired of winter clothes, of the rutted streets, of the dirty drifts and the piles of cinders that had lain in the yards so long.
My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context
The lane was moreover much rutted and broken up by the carriages which had recently transported articles of various kinds to the tournament; and it was dark, for the banks and bushes intercepted the light of the harvest moon.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
Raveloe lay low among the bushy trees and the rutted lanes, aloof from the currents of industrial energy and Puritan earnestness: the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families, and the poor thought that the rich were entirely in the right of it to lead a jolly life; besides, their feasting caused a multiplication of orts, which were the heirlooms of the poor.
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