rutted

UK/ˈɹʌtɪd/

adjectiveC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Rutted means marked with deep grooves made by wheels. A rutted track.

The grooves set hard in summer and fill with water in winter, which is why they get worse. A rutted lane is what every farm road becomes without stone on it.

Definitions of rutted

1adjectiveruttedMarked with deep grooves made by wheels.C1
“The rutted track shook everything loose in the back of the van.”

rutted is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin
rugītus
Old French
rut — noise, roar, bellowing
Middle English
rutte
English
rut
English, today
rutted

Built from

rugīre · Latin — to roar

From rut + -ed. rut comes from Middle English rutte and rutten, from Old French rut (“noise, roar, bellowing”), from Latin rugītus, from rugīre (“to roar”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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rutted in the wild

The surface of the ice is not covered with snow and is "deeply rutted with cracks and melt lines".
Lake Vanda
Today, Peratallada is known for its beautiful old stone buildings, rutted stone streets and passageways.
Peratallada
The pass currently consists of a rutted dirt road, though it is slowly being improved by construction crews as part of the international reconstruction effort in Afghanistan.
Khost-Gardez Pass
However, it was reported in January 2017 that construction was on hold with about 1 mile (1.6 km) still consisting of a rutted dirt track.
Antelope Wells Port of Entry
The lake is accessible only through rutted sandy roads.
Success Lake

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the rugīre family

rutting

rutted — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others

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