coated

4 definitions • 4 examples

thickly covered:

coated in Your trousers are coated in mud!

coated with Wood burning stoves will quickly become coated with residue.

If your tongue is coated, it is covered with a layer of a greyish-white substance, often because you are ill.

with a covering of the stated substance:

sugar-coated sugar-coated almonds

(of an animal) with a coat (= hair, wool, or fur) of the stated type:

a smooth-coated dog