Meaning & use
Graveled
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Covered or surfaced with gravel; in an older, now less common sense, perplexed, embarrassed, or annoyed.
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Workers graveled the driveway to improve drainage before winter.
The witness's contradictory answers graveled the attorney questioning him.
A note on using this word
The now-archaic sense of "graveled," meaning perplexed, comes from the image of a ship running aground on a gravel bed and becoming stuck.
Words with a similar meaning
puzzledstumped
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Words with an opposite meaning
clarified
Another way to use it
2. verb
Surfaced a path or road with small stones.
They graveled the garden path to keep it from turning muddy.
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