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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of mulch.

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Examples

  • I love the opening about publishing people never using the word "mulched" for sensitive authors too afraid to question what happens to all their unsold books.

    Plagued 2008

  • I only realised what had happened when she asked what the 10 sqr ft of Xmas glitter was on her freshly 'mulched' lawn.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Glyn Davies 2006

  • The tree was planted between the side of somebody's house and the sidewalk, and I thought it odd because the ground beneath the tree was mulched with that reddish orange stuff and there were no other plants nearby.

    Cepaea nemoralis AYDIN 2009

  • I've had a vegetable garden before, but I had a lot of help and I certainly did not mulch it -- and since I am so dumb that I mulched this darn garden by hand, the mulching was truly horrific (I have since purchased a hoe).

    Tequila Lime Marinade for Tequila Lime Chicken Tacos Laura 2009

  • And so on a sweltering June day, Goldring stood before a podium in her freshly mulched back yard, flanked by a congressman, the mayor, the lieutenant governor, and other officials.

    Black economic gains reversed in Great Recession 2011

  • The directed research and the serendipitous discoveries all mulched up together, and I wound up with a book full of stuff about con artists, but also full of stuff about fungal magicians.

    Hunt and Gather « 2009

  • After four takes of the song, Ms. Klein's hopping dance had mulched the leaves underfoot.

    Born to Run Through the Entire Garden State Andy Beta 2011

  • I've had a vegetable garden before, but I had a lot of help and I certainly did not mulch it -- and since I am so dumb that I mulched this darn garden by hand, the mulching was truly horrific (I have since purchased a hoe).

    Archive 2009-05-01 Laura 2009

  • The issue of People with my cover was recycled and mulched with all the other magazines.

    Famous Todd Strasser 2011

  • Light soils can be mulched to protect fallow areas in winter and dug over in spring.

    The to-do list: October Dan Pearson 2010

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