silvered

English

Adjective

silvered (comparative more silvered, superlative most silvered)

1. Coated with silver, made reflective or shiny by application of metal.
2. Hoary with age; silver-haired.
   • 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 3:

     Professor Malik Solanka, retired historian of ideas, irascible dollmaker, and since his recent fifty-fifth birthday celibate and solitary by his own (much criticized) choice, in his silvered years found himself living in a golden age.

Derived terms

• half-silvered mirror

Translations

coated with silver

• Finnish: hopeoitu (fi)
• Manx: argidit
• Spanish: plateado (es)

Verb

silvered

1. simple past and past participle of silver

Anagrams

• delivers, delivres, desilver, slivered