fleeced
simple past tense and past participle of fleece
fleeced (not comparable)
Having a fleece.
Source: Wiktionary
Fleeced, a.
1. Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced. Spenser.
2. Stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed.
Fleece, n. Etym: [OE. flees, AS. fleós; akin to D. flies, vlies .]
1. The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time. Who shore me Like a tame wether, all my precious fleece. Milton.
2. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
3. (Manuf.)
Definition: The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine. Fleece wool, wool shorn from the sheep.
– Golden fleece. See under Golden.
Fleece, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fleeced; p. pr. & vb. n. Fleecing.]
1. To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
2. To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or frand; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions. Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely fleeced. Fuller.
3. To spread over as with wool. [R.] Thomson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 May 2025
(noun) the act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity
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