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say it: sheethd
sheathed is an adjective meaning "enclosed in a protective covering; sometimes used in combination". It is pronounced /ˈʃiðd/ — sheethd. It carries one recorded sense.
enclosed in a protective covering; sometimes used in combination
“his sheathed sword”
“the cat's sheathed claws”
“a ship's bottom sheathed in copper”
“copper-sheathed”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sheathed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.