RIPPLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rippled mean? 

• RIPPLED (adjective)
  The adjective RIPPLED has 2 senses:

1. uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves

2. shaken into waves or undulations as by wind

  Familiarity information: RIPPLED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIPPLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves

Synonyms:

crinkled; crinkly; rippled; wavelike; wavy

Similar:

uneven (not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Shaken into waves or undulations as by wind

Synonyms:

rippled; ruffled

Context example:

with ruffled flags flying

Similar:

agitated (physically disturbed or set in motion)

 Context examples 

The hair rippled up along his back at the sight.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Then up rose from the hill in the rugged Cantabrian valley a sound such as had not been heard in those parts before, nor was again, until the streams which rippled amid the rocks had been frozen by over four hundred winters and thawed by as many returning springs.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The quaint old garden had sheltered many pairs of lovers, and seemed expressly made for them, so sunny and secluded was it, with nothing but the tower to overlook them, and the wide lake to carry away the echo of their words, as it rippled by below.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Now and again a peaty amber colored stream rippled across their way, with ferny over-grown banks, where the blue kingfisher flitted busily from side to side, or the gray and pensive heron, swollen with trout and dignity, stood ankle-deep among the sedges.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding cake of the ceiling—and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)