Definition of "anchored" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of anchor. (verb)
• Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor. (adjective)

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• "The couple's willingness to pay 8,050 rixdollars for the farm, over four times Johannes's likely share of his parents 'estate, suggests they wanted very much to remain anchored in the Olifants River valley."
• "Newlin anchored the defense against Paris, getting help from a different teammate practically every possession."
• "The kids are sometimes called anchored babies because they can petition the government to make their parents citizens once they reach an age of 21, and that has led a lot of people to suspect that their parents conceived them just to get themselves citizenship."