matted

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of mat
2. participlepastsimple past and past participle of matt
3. participlepastsimple past and past participle of matte

comparative more matted · superlative most matted

1. Forming a thick tangled mess.

   The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver—over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple […]

   1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I

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   As the warrior emerged from the forest, Tarzan caught a fleeting glimpse of a tawny hide worming its way through the matted jungle grasses in his wake—it was Numa, the lion. He, too, was stalking the black man.

   1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantyine Books, published 1963, page 123

2. Covered with mats or matting.

   The servant led us down a matted passage and showed us at the end into a great library […]

   1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC