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masked

verbadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//mɑːskt//
  • United States//mæskt//

Wearing a mask or masks.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of masksimple past and past participle of mask

Etymology

Etymology tree English mask Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English masked From mask + -ed.

adjective

  1. 1

    Wearing a mask or masks.

    As the Superintendent of Austin, TX, schools I have mandated that our kids must be masked when they start school on Tuesday.

  2. 2

    Characterized by masks.

  3. 3

    Concealed; hidden.

  4. 4

    Personate.

  5. 5

    Having the anterior part of the head differing decidedly in color from the rest of the plumage.

Forms

comparative
more masked
superlative
most masked
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).