balled 1 of 2

past tense of ball
as in rolled
to form into a round compact mass balled up the paper and threw it at the garbage can

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balled

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adjective

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Recent Examples of balled
Adjective
Lynn Dickey threw for 387 yards and three touchdowns; Paul Coffman balled out with a 6/124/2 receiving line. Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025 Newly installed balled and burlapped plants need about 1 inch of water a week — be sure the root ball is getting watered. Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for balled
Verb
  • Green Bay, which rolled past Detroit, 27-13, in its season-opener is now the favorite to win the NFC North.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Piqued by the remarkable successes of the far-right National Rally (RN) in the European elections in June 2024, the president rolled the dice on a parliamentary vote.
    Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Simply pinch off any offset or irregular branches with your fingers or garden snips so that the plant has a more rounded appearance.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Pillowy-soft footbeds provide all the support your feet need, even when racking up mileage, and the rounded toe boxes create a delicate finish, despite the shoes’ sturdy construction.
    Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The top overlay of her black, Christian Dior gown blew upward, and billowed, appearing inflated and bulbous for about a second, footage of the moment shared by Cinema Blend shows.
    Bailey Richards, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Justin, meanwhile, delights in the most gargantuan hoodies and bottoms, bulbous footwear, and sporty accessories, while always wearing something from his own brand too.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Overall, the design language shifts from squarish to roundish and more curvy, presenting a silhouette closer to a human figure, at least from the front.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The wrappers don’t have to be a perfect circle, just roundish.
    Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The canyon-like layout consists of four spherical structures connected by curving platforms, courtyards, and pedestrian bridges; 3 of the 18 floors are below ground.
    Mae Hamilton, AFAR Media, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Covered with tentacles, shaped like rods, perfectly spherical?
    Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The globular segments of the abstract piece, Complexing, could be a kind of smudging, a devolving, of the pregnant and engorged curvilinear silhouette of an earlier figurative sculpture, Monument.
    Nina-Sophia Miralles, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • As a wave of radioactive green slime envelops him, his body begins to transform—limbs mutating, rows of bloody fangs emerging—his globular, wormlike form, slithering menacingly across the screen.
    Laura Holliday, Wired News, 2 May 2025
Adjective
  • The rotund bomb is similar to the one used in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
    Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Never a perfect circle, but dependably rotund, the doughnuts are large enough to tear at greedily and still last the entire drive home.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The most prominent features of the Cygnus cargo freighter are its circular, fan-like solar arrays and an aluminum cylinder called the pressurized cargo module that bears some resemblance to a keg of beer.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
  • To clean your stainless steel pan after a night of cooking, simply pour off the excess grease or oil, then clean the pan with warm water and dish soap, using a sponge (our favorite is this Skura style sponge), moving in a continuous circular motion across the cooking surface.
    Emily Johnson, Bon Appetit Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Balled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/balled. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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