potted 1 of 2

slang

potted

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verb

past tense of pot

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of potted
Verb
Use the water for potted plants, thirstier tropical fruits, and vegetables. Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2025 This mainly applies to people who sell produce or potted plants, but profit for garden owners can be less tangible, like aesthetic value, environmental impact, or time and labor. Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2025 Expect layered foliage, potted blooms, herbs and small trees to create depth and movement. Emma Kershaw, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025 For more than a year, thousands of classified documents flowed from the TRW complex to the Soviets, with Boyce sometimes smuggling them out in potted plants. Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for potted
Recent Examples of Synonyms for potted
Adjective
  • But unfortunately, indulging too much in fried foods will trigger your cortisol.
    Audrey Noble, Vogue, 25 June 2025
  • Those two disparate memories become a bowl of Venetian-style risotto with a small mound of rock crab meat sourced from that same crabbing boat and a fried egg espuma in the middle.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2025
Verb
  • Six of the players in the round of 16 were seeded 20th or higher, and half the top eight seeds were out before the quarters.
    Todd Boss, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • What was seeded as an art project for an internship with Yolé!
    Akilah Sailers, Essence, 19 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • And maybe a little drunk and sick from all that oily food and crappy wine.
    Helen Schulman, The Atlantic, 26 June 2025
  • But try bouncing from a pop star version of 1500s English queen Anne Boleyn to a drunk 1985 housewife to a lusty 1955 teenager.
    Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 22 June 2025
Verb
  • Cooper DeJean was put in a sticky situation over the weekend.
    Justin Grasso, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
  • Some critics of Sunday hunting argue that Sundays are a day of recreation by many non-hunters who would be disturbed — or potentially put in harm’s way — if hunters were allowed to shoot on Sundays.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • Assistant state’s attorneys will assist police in obtaining search warrants to conduct blood, breath or urine tests on people who are stopped on suspicion of drunken driving and refuse to submit to testing as required by Illinois law, the release said.
    Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
  • In a stunning decision, the jury in her retrial voted unanimously to only convict Read of drunken driving sparing her any jail time.
    Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • Paradise Rot is perhaps less of a wet, watery exploration than the others in this list, and more the study of the porousness of two bodies cohabitating, and the blurring of these bodily lines between each other and their more-than-human cohabitants.
    Siouxzi Connor June 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
  • Of course, be mindful of where cords are running to prevent them from getting wet during our frequent spring and summer showers.
    Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • That means fewer unexpected shutdowns and less wasted time, as well as lower repair costs.
    Cory McNeley, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Nonetheless, fusion research is rarely a wasted effort, Whyte says.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Three little raggedy boys sit in a row pressed against each other on a mound of rubble in front of a worn plastered brick wall in 1915 in Esztergom, Hungary, Kertész’s homeland.
    Donna Seaman June 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
  • Their plastered smiles and scripted pleasantries represented a great loss of emotional freedom and a new level of managerial control.
    TIME, TIME, 24 Oct. 2023

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“Potted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/potted. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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