Definition of "turtled" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of turtle. (verb)
• Capsized; turned upside-down in the water. (adjective)

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• "After his aborted attempt to reach the platform onto which his nephew had climbed, Callahan crawled to the back of the "turtled" boat, where he sat on the upturned outboard, wrapped his arms around the engine's lower unit and held on under an unceasing assault of drenching, slamming waves."
• "An Aragon defender came up to make the play, but ducked down, "turtled," in trying to take out Walter's legs."
• "We have a much bigger problem here: a hollow man, a creature without personality, only a mask upon mask upon mask turtled all the way down to … nothing."