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Definition of "groomed" []

  • Simple past tense and past participle of groom. (verb)
  • Having a neat and clean appearance; well cared-for (verb)

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Use "groomed" in a sentence
  • "I am happy to carve gentle giant-slalom turns in groomed snow on intermediate trails."
  • "It was obvious that the child brides were part of a lifestyle that was being imposed on all of the children, and that not only were the girls at risk of rape, but the boys were also at risk, for they were being groomed to perpetuate the situation - groomed, that is, to be law-breakers."
  • "It's a dangerous, dramatic story, told with sombre reticence from the point of view of an inarticulate character no more able to analyse the forces that manipulate him than the clever 16-year-old boy (in "The Pearl Fishers"), at an Irish Catholic school in the 60s, being "groomed" by the priests in ways he hardly understands."