Word: bolted
Phonetic:
/ˈbəʊltɪd/Listen:
To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt. Example: Bolt the vice to the bench.
To secure a door by locking or barring it. Example: Bolt the door.
To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly. Example: Seeing the snake, the horse bolted.
To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted). Example: to bolt a rabbit
To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
To escape.
Of a plant, to grow quickly; to go to seed. Example: Lettuce and spinach will bolt as the weather warms up.
To swallow food without chewing it.
To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink. Example: Come on, everyone, bolt your drinks; I want to go to the next pub!
To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
To sift, especially through a cloth.
To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour. Example: Graham flour is unbolted flour.
To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
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