Impacted

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  • adjective. Wedged together at the broken ends. Used of a fractured bone.
  • adjective. Placed in the alveolus in a manner prohibiting eruption into a normal position. Used of a tooth.
  • adjective. Wedged or packed in, so as to fill or block an organ or a passage.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Driven together or close.
  • adjective. Grown in an abnormal direction so that it is wedged against another tooth and cannot erupt normally; -- of teeth, especially the third molar.
  • adjective. a fracture in which the fragments are driven into each other so as to be immovable.
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  • verb. Simple past tense and past participle of impact.
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  • adjective. wedged or packed in together
  • Word Usage
    "Johnson may want to reconsider his use of the word "impacted"."
    Equivalent
    compact  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    verb-stem
    impact